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Answer» I have a system that displayed the following message at boot: Any suggestions on if this a hardware vrs software issue? I am leaning towards hardware but do not know if its the motherboard, memory or hard drive. Is there anyway to find out? 1. I'm also leaning toward hardware and suggest you invest time testing the hardware rather than recovering the system software. Not sure how to test the motherboard, but you can test the memory and hard drive. 2. Memory. MemTest86 is a standalone program on a bootable floppy or CD that will rigorously test your memory. See MemTest86. Follow the "Free Download" link (left hand side of web page) to either the floppy: Download - Pre-Compiled Memtest86 v3.4a installable from Windows and DOS or CD versions: Download - Memtest86 v3.4a ISO image (zip) The "Technical Info" link (left hand side of web page) is the documentation for the program. 3. Hard Drive. Most hard drive manufacturers provide downloads for bootable diagnostic software that may be used to test their hard drives. Find out the Make, Model Number, Capacity, and Interface Type of your hard drive and look for the compatible diagnostic software on the manufacturer's website. If they don't provide software, post your hard drive specs and maybe someone can recommend compatible diagnostics from another manufacturer. Probably not as good, but you can try the Windows disk error checking software to check both the integrity of the file system and the disk surface within the disk partition or volume being checked. How to perform disk error checking in Windows XPHere is an update. I have remove the 2 video capture cards(everything else is on-board) and reinstalled windows xp. Then I reinstalled one of the video capture cards and the driver. I am not sure if the driver installed correctly because I get a yellow question mark in the device manager. When I click on the device it say no driver installed. I am still working on this issue. While working on this issue I got the blue screen with the 0x8a error. I have run memtest before for about a hour with no errors. This system had been working with these capture cards for at least a year before the first problem came up. Thanks for you helpI would run a diagnostic test on the hard drive if i was you. Look to see what make your hard drive is, then visit there website. Most hard drive manufacturer's, have diagnostic tools for there hard drives."\windows\system32\config\system file missing" error is a typical corrupt registry error. Are you still getting it after reinstall? Was it clean install?Thanks everyone for your help. The problem was ram. I ran the memtester that dahlarbear suggested and the memory was bad. The memory tester I used before did not uncover the errors. Thanks again Don I was wrong. I'm glad, you fixed it Broni, you were not wrong about the registry. The registry was getting corrupted because of the Ram issue. Ah.... |
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