hal.dll corrupt errors in my rig

[egghead]

Hello!

I have a p4p8x motherboard,
http://www.asus.com/products/mb/sock...x/overview.htm

I have the p4p800 bios installed and it works great!
http://www.digital-daily.com/motherb...up/index08.htm

with a cellery 2.4 ghz and 512 dual ddr memory.

I have simply repair installed WindowsXP to allow myself the opportunity to continue some important work before I do a format and clean install.

I keep getting a hal.dll corrupt message after a few reboots. (usually after installing service pack 1)

Do you think my hd is going out to lunch? ( I record lots of HDTV with my sat card)

Do you think the memory may be bad? its 3200

The CPU is running at only 400mhz fsb.

I am going to install a p4 2.6ghz 800ht shortly.

Do you think windows is just playing with me because of the updated system?

I updated my os many times before with different systems and this is the first time I am getting this error consistantly.

Once every day or 2.

Also sometimes if I keep rebooting it will finally load the os without error.....

I also saw an error reading from disk message on a couple of boots

It's an 80gig maxtor thats loaded and smartdrive says it is working fine.

any suggestions?

thanks
egghead

[efc]

egghead, try here -

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal

and here,

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

[egghead]

thanks efc!

great work

some tastey information there....

so do you think it is memory that is corrupt or my compter or hard drive?

I need to think this one through.

An easy fix for this error is entering the recovery console and typing
bootcfg /rebuild

I will need to try this when i get home from work.

My computer is dead with this error....

I need to back up my computer and format and see if I still get these errors.

This is a real nice motherboard for the price

$112cdn p4p8x
$96cdn celeron 2.4ghz
$98cdn for 2 sticks of 256 dual ddr ram

[efc]

I'm not even going to guess about your HAL problem. I've never run into it before.

When you fix it, please tell the rest of us how you did it.

[Conan]

Is your memory voltage at 2.65-2.75? RAM timings by SPD?

[egghead]

hi

just did a delete windows installation install so this should tell me if its my computer

very frustrating
i will check the memory conan and let you know

[Conan]

hi

just did a delete windows installation install so this should tell me if its my computer

very frustrating
i will check the memory conan and let you know

If it's memory related you should run memtest86

[Reverend]

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows\System32\Hal.dll
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

[egghead]

Thanks Reverend

the bootcfg/rebuild

and the /fastdetect for the last question allowed me to boot up fine.

The memory is set on auto Conan.

I did have errors installing xp deleteing current installation option but i think i will narrow it down tonight


i will keep you updated.


I think the HDTV recording could be killing my hard drive
but i will try memtest
tonihgt and a few other things

thanks guys as always