I've searched these forums for a cause and solution to my situation, and while I've found a 3 yr-old thread with the same error message, there was no applicable solution. So I'm hoping you folks that are here today can help me.
I've got an IBM Thinkpad G40 with XP Pro SP 3. It ws running a bit slow yesterday, so I ran Window's defrag. The analysis showed the drive (40 gb) had 27% space available. I started the defrag and walked away.
This morning I was faced with the blue screen with the following message:
Stop: C00007b {Bad Image}
The application or DLL \???\C:\WindowsSystem32\winsrv.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.
The system kept rebooting, which of course brought it to the same message.
I tried booting into Safe Mode, but while I was able to get to the screen to select Safe Mode, the machine starts to boot, but stops when it runs into whatever step is causing this error. Actually, as I write this, I realize I should to the line-by-line boot. I will go back to try this and post the results. In the meantime, maybe someone has some sugguesstions.
Now I have the IBM diagnositcs running on the hard drive; so far so good with that.
I do not have a win xp bootable cd nor do I have an xp installation cd. The machine came with Win XP SP 1 preinstalled. I do have a complete backup of the hard drive on an external drive (albeit a month or so old). And I do have another Thinkpad (T41) with XP Pro SP 3 installed.
I've done some reading about making a bootable cd, but I don't know if I make one from the T41 if it will really help on my G40.
My virus software (Norton) is up-to-date and runs a full system scan nightly - though - obviously - I didn't see any scran results from last night.
I suspect that my beloved G40 picked up something (big, virus, whatever) which is what was causing it to run slowly yesterday.
I've had the machine for years and it's been a reliable workhorse. I use it everyday for work so I really need it to be operational.
Any and all thoughts, ideas, suggestions are welcome! Thanks!
I've got an IBM Thinkpad G40 with XP Pro SP 3. It ws running a bit slow yesterday, so I ran Window's defrag. The analysis showed the drive (40 gb) had 27% space available. I started the defrag and walked away.
This morning I was faced with the blue screen with the following message:
Stop: C00007b {Bad Image}
The application or DLL \???\C:\WindowsSystem32\winsrv.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.
The system kept rebooting, which of course brought it to the same message.
I tried booting into Safe Mode, but while I was able to get to the screen to select Safe Mode, the machine starts to boot, but stops when it runs into whatever step is causing this error. Actually, as I write this, I realize I should to the line-by-line boot. I will go back to try this and post the results. In the meantime, maybe someone has some sugguesstions.
Now I have the IBM diagnositcs running on the hard drive; so far so good with that.
I do not have a win xp bootable cd nor do I have an xp installation cd. The machine came with Win XP SP 1 preinstalled. I do have a complete backup of the hard drive on an external drive (albeit a month or so old). And I do have another Thinkpad (T41) with XP Pro SP 3 installed.
I've done some reading about making a bootable cd, but I don't know if I make one from the T41 if it will really help on my G40.
My virus software (Norton) is up-to-date and runs a full system scan nightly - though - obviously - I didn't see any scran results from last night.
I suspect that my beloved G40 picked up something (big, virus, whatever) which is what was causing it to run slowly yesterday.
I've had the machine for years and it's been a reliable workhorse. I use it everyday for work so I really need it to be operational.
Any and all thoughts, ideas, suggestions are welcome! Thanks!