I have a pretty horrible problem that could make someone a hero!
I have a reasonably new (9 mths old) Dell Dimension 2800 which has decided to go a bit mental. I recently installed 1GB of RAM and, later on that same day, one of my games (Doom 3 Demo) crashed/froze. I quit the program and a few minutes later tried to reopen it. Windows informed me that there was a system program missing.
I restarted the PC and it automatically started CheckDisk because one of my volumes is dirty - this then freezes after 30% of Stage 2. I can't find a way of avoiding running CheckDisk or avoiding the freeze at 30% - there are no options available to me.
I have booted the Dell Recovery CD which has the Windows XP software on it (NOT a specific Windows XP CD which would probably come in handy). This CD tries to boot Windows directly (without giving any other options) but gets to a certain point in the load before I get a STOP error, specifically "Unknown Hard Error \systemRoot\system32\ntdll.dll"
So I can't access Windows from the HD and I can't access from the recovery disk. Um... this is where I need a wee bit of help please! Have I zapped my Motherboard with my magical staticky fingers or do I just need to find a way of getting into the registry and reinstalling the ntdll directory file?
Please help!
Cheers, Dave
I have a reasonably new (9 mths old) Dell Dimension 2800 which has decided to go a bit mental. I recently installed 1GB of RAM and, later on that same day, one of my games (Doom 3 Demo) crashed/froze. I quit the program and a few minutes later tried to reopen it. Windows informed me that there was a system program missing.
I restarted the PC and it automatically started CheckDisk because one of my volumes is dirty - this then freezes after 30% of Stage 2. I can't find a way of avoiding running CheckDisk or avoiding the freeze at 30% - there are no options available to me.
I have booted the Dell Recovery CD which has the Windows XP software on it (NOT a specific Windows XP CD which would probably come in handy). This CD tries to boot Windows directly (without giving any other options) but gets to a certain point in the load before I get a STOP error, specifically "Unknown Hard Error \systemRoot\system32\ntdll.dll"
So I can't access Windows from the HD and I can't access from the recovery disk. Um... this is where I need a wee bit of help please! Have I zapped my Motherboard with my magical staticky fingers or do I just need to find a way of getting into the registry and reinstalling the ntdll directory file?
Please help!
Cheers, Dave