Hello, first post here.
Little backstory: I got this computer from a friend of mine for relatively cheap price around 10 months ago. For some reason it woudn't boot up so I did a full reinstall of Windows XP. The computer worked flawlessly until up around November, thats when I started getting random crashes, freezes and BSODs every 2-3 days. I thought this problem was somehow related to steam because it only crashed when i was playing steam games. But latley it has been crashing non-stop 2-3 times a day. Until today when it crashed and when I tried restart the computer it said something along the lines of
"File missing or corrupt "system32/windows/config".
I tried to use recovery console but as soon as I select disk C ( the only option) and press eneter it gives me another bluescreen with the "Registry Error" message. Same thing happens when i try to reinstall windows I get another BSOD right after i accept Terms of Use and agreement. I now cannot log into windows or reinstall/repair.
Here are some of the blue screen errors that I saw
IRQL_LESS_THEN_OR_EQUAL
DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_THEN_OR_EQUAL
And these errors only started happening today
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
REGISTRY_ERROR
(and another error that I don't remember, it had the word CONFIG in it, sorry)
Another thing i noticed is that past month or so, my computer took a really long time to start up. Like over 2 mins or so.
I think this might be a hardware issue, does anyone have any idea on what is going on and how I can fix this? I am not really computer savvy, so I would appreciate more detailed instructions, explanations of some terms.
Any help at all is welcome
Little backstory: I got this computer from a friend of mine for relatively cheap price around 10 months ago. For some reason it woudn't boot up so I did a full reinstall of Windows XP. The computer worked flawlessly until up around November, thats when I started getting random crashes, freezes and BSODs every 2-3 days. I thought this problem was somehow related to steam because it only crashed when i was playing steam games. But latley it has been crashing non-stop 2-3 times a day. Until today when it crashed and when I tried restart the computer it said something along the lines of
"File missing or corrupt "system32/windows/config".
I tried to use recovery console but as soon as I select disk C ( the only option) and press eneter it gives me another bluescreen with the "Registry Error" message. Same thing happens when i try to reinstall windows I get another BSOD right after i accept Terms of Use and agreement. I now cannot log into windows or reinstall/repair.
Here are some of the blue screen errors that I saw
IRQL_LESS_THEN_OR_EQUAL
DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_THEN_OR_EQUAL
And these errors only started happening today
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
REGISTRY_ERROR
(and another error that I don't remember, it had the word CONFIG in it, sorry)
Another thing i noticed is that past month or so, my computer took a really long time to start up. Like over 2 mins or so.
I think this might be a hardware issue, does anyone have any idea on what is going on and how I can fix this? I am not really computer savvy, so I would appreciate more detailed instructions, explanations of some terms.
Any help at all is welcome