hey everyone, i kind of have a big problem, yesterday i was playing a game (we all get bored at times) and suddenly my computer just freezes, so i restarted it, now when i turn it on it will recognise the hard disk, and start to load XP, but as soon as it gets to the boot screen, it loads the boot screen, then the it will restart...... my friend suspects it is something to do with Maybe the HDD being a hitatchi make?

but i really need the data on that disk, as my computer runs as a web host, because i host and build all my websites from that one machine!!, and one is soon to be its due date 'EEK'

any ideas?

By the way my computer is:
Gigabyte K8VM800M (MOBO)
Radeon 9250 (AGP)
Radeon 9700 (PCI)
1.6Ghz AMD Sempron 2800+
512Mb RAM
160Gb Hitatchi Deskstar (PATA - IDE)
DVD-ROM (Pioneer DVD-115)
Windows XP Pro SP2

Sorry i forgot to say, i even tried Safe Mode, last good settings..... and all the rest Etc. i even had a tuneup backup but that didnt boot either....

Thanks
Jack

My guess is a corrupt file in the windows system32 folder. This happens a lot and the only thing to do is re-install windows xp. If your pc is rebooting now after the boot screen, it would either be that or possible a memory problem.

hmmmm never had a memory problem PC has always been fine, did some checks today, and im missing "hal.dll" so im going to slave the drive tommorow at a friends house and see if i can reinstall XP or the dll file again soon, thank you for your help

Jack

Sure thing, let me know if you need any help with that.

okay, well should find out today, but im going to see if i can get my friend to let me borrow (without returning) his old 40Gb HDD aswell so i can use that as an external backup of all my work =) thanks for the help Steve

sorted it all, slaved the drive and sorted out the data i need, did it all and just reinstalled XP on my main 160Gb Disk, and they both work together perfectly =)
thanks for your help

Jack

Thanks for the update.

Glad all is well.