Startup Fails Because Of Missing DLL
Oct 13, 2006
Somehow or other I've deleted two DLLs that prevent Windows XP from booting up.These are ODBC32.DLL and MSGINA.DLL - I get two seperate error messages saying they are missing and then the PC tries to reboot again.
I have tried booting in safe mode and get the same problem.I have a recovery CD but wish to avoid reinstalling windows and all that entails. I have found reference and source elsewhere to booting from startup floppy discs but have no access to a PC with a disc drive to create them.Is it possible to create a boot CD for windows XP or can anyone suggest another solution?
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Jul 14, 2008
XP fails to start in any mode. XP has been reloaded from an image with no change in situation. (I was reimaging the machines anyway.) I have not yet had a successful boot since reimaging, and hence XP (mini)setup has not completed (the image was prepared using sysprep to allow it to be rolled out to multiple machines. These machines are connected to an 2003 AD Domain). Currently I'm running memtest86+ from Knoppix. Knoppix booted with only one error about not passing in proper display information. (Perhaps the graphics card is going?). The last file loaded in a safe mode bootup is mup.sys, which leads me further to believe that it's a hardware problem (and that's backed up by Google).
I've opened it up, cleaned it out with a little (make that a lot) of compressed air. Boy, was it dusty. I forgot to mention, this computer is at a high school, if you want an idea of what the users are like . It's a magnet/gifted/selective enrollment (for you Chicago people) high school though. Any suggestions on things to try? I didn't see anything obviously wrong on the motherboard: that is, no exploded capicitors, disconnected cables, missing RAM, etc. I'm running memtest now, however we won't know the results of that until tomorrow. I'm going to swap out the HD with a different one and we'll see if that's any better.
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So here's the deal: I try booting into windows one day, and I can't even get as far as the boot screen. Safe mode only results in a hard reboot, so I decided to run a repair install of windows XP. After doing this, several things started going wrong:
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- Explorer's theme reverts to windows classic after a few minutes
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- at one point my audio randomly cut out and my screen began to fade to white, but the computer's been fine since, I just want some input before I decide to try running another repair install to see if there's any other way to remedy this situation.
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i have a HP Pavilion laptop [dv5117ci] with factory load XP Pro SP2and factory restore discs. the system became corrupted by a failed Win update.
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That looked like it was going to work but after being up on the initial boot, wobbly, for about 45 minutes, something caused a freeze, and I was toasted after that. Same routine again: bootup, get error "Windows failed to start because the following file is missing or corrupt"
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wen i start up my computer it comes up with this :windowssystem32configsystem....missing or corrupt you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup CD-ROM . Select "R" at the first screen to start repair i hav no idea what this means or how to fix it . i hav the oorginal windows CD .
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