Hello all... My son's computer just crashed while he was playing American Army online. The message I get is that it cannot load DNSAPI.DLL The unit will not boot into XP-just hands at the screen XP logo; Safe Mode is no good, and LKGF is no good. I Googled this .dll, but there is no definitive definition as to what this thing does,other than it has something to do with Domain Name Service (I think). I can download the .dll, but that's no help if I can't get into XP to insert it. Does anyone know what this .dll does, and is it a part of XP operating system, before I take the time to reinstall XP? thanks as usual... Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

I have 2 copies of this dsnapi.dll One is in here C:\WINDOWS\system32\dsnapi.dll The other is here C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\dnsapi.dll When you right click the .dll it states this... DNS Client API DLL Microsoft Corporation Version 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) I don't know if this will help. Purgamentum initium, exitus purgamentum

http://www.allcentex.com/ce/pc/sw/xp/rec_console.htm If you cannot start the computer in safe or normal mode you could try the recovery console and run chkdsk /R to see if it will repair the OS. the above site tells you how to do such. If you need more info about the recovery console you can google it.

I found this doing a search on aol. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827535 I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid...

This is good. Scroll down the page some to get to the important stuff. http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-177096 I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid...

Setshock, FJB, and Wombat... Thanks for the info! Recovery Consol did not work. I added a 2nd harddrive and installed XP on it and added as slave-thought Maybee-e-e-e it would see the main drive and I could pull the data off of it. No way, when I have them both connected XP tries so boot to the main drive, so.. Tried setting it to boot to 2nd harddrive in BIOS-no go, still tries to boot to main. Anyone know how to change the Master Boot Record from Recovery Consol?? Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

here is an idea for you..not sure if it will work...put that dll file on a floppy and boot from win98 disk..this will enable you to get to the dos prompt and by doing that you can copy the dll file from the A: drive to ur windows folder and hopefully it will fix it