please i'm a newbbie at this my mom brought me this laptop from a friend it's recondtion her friend also gave us ram and upgrade for it windows xp professinal it was working fine untill i put it online and put the updates on it the sp 3 packs then it went black with a blue screen that saids stop c0000221 {bad image checksum] THE IMAGE URL. DLL IS POSSIBLY CORRUPT. THE HEADER CHECKSUM DOES NOT MATCH THE COMPUTER CHECKSUM.PLEASE HELP I'M BED WRITTEN AT THE TIME AND I'M SO HAPPY TO HAVE THIS BUT I JUST DO'NT KNOW WHAT WENT WRONG THANK YOU.

This: "OS: DELL LATITUDE CPQ CPU/Ram: not sure System Manufacturer: windows nt 98" Is more than a little confused, but I understand that you're new to this. Hopefully you have the windows 98 CD. If so, you'd do well to reinstall and before you connect to ANYTHING, get a firewall & a mainstream AV [anti-wirus]. Windows 98 Second Edition doesn't need any updates. M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Hi marie, You said that your friend up-graded to winXP? In that case, go to: start>all programs>accessories>system tools>system restore and restore your system to a date when it worked well Try that for starters and post back and we'll try to get you to get the proper critical up-dates. It's hard to do a good job When you have a monkey on your back

You listed Windows NT 98 as your System Manufacturer, yet in your post, you say the machine was upgraded to XP. Since there is no SP3 for XP, I'm not sure what OS you're actually running. I found these: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1062279245 http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1062294358

And this: http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-7587-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=50888&messageID=606944

Yes, it would be worth spending a few minutes making sure what operating system you are running ("Windows system" for all practical purposes). It sounds like it is now XP. Someone might be able to help on here but this is W95/W98 forum so another time the XP forum would be far better - if that's what it is. It might be that replacement of the file imageurl.dll would help but I only have W95/98 files available. Derek.W