gooner45

hi again, i havent contacted the person who built the computer yet but i tried the pc again and it said "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system 32 \hal.dll Please reinstall a copy of the above file" is here anything else i can do before contacting the person who made it?

thanks a lot for your help i'll try and get them to change it for me. if not i hope it's okay if i post another message on this thread to help me out.

if i open the pc up is there any chgance i will mess anythinfg up as im not very confident with this sort of thing or shoukd i get the person who made it to do it?

im not sure if there are two harddrives as i didnt make the pc. i do think there are 2 harddrives as before when i went on my computer it said local disc?? the hard drive is SATA how would i go about removing the bios battery?

on the bios pagw it says: F1: View array/disc staus up/down: move to next item enter: confirm selection esc: exit but when i press f1 it dosen't work also... serial_Ch0 Master Maxto 's staus is hdd but serial_Ch1 Master.. it says no drive is this a problem?

thanks i will try and load defaults back in a sec

no worries i got on the bios page and it said in red writing "NOTICE: The number of discs is not adquate to create RAID!" what should i do? i havent changed any of the setting on it yet.

hi thank sfor getting back to me so quickly im not amazing at computers and was wondering how would i get into bios? also i dont want to mess up anything on it if i do but mainly how di i get into bios?

os is xp profesional computer make is a homemade one problem occured yesterday when i tried toturn it on as it was loading i took out a ubs stick (maybe that has something to do with it?) i havent installed anything recently (i think) hi there i was wondering if you could help me out. I have a pc which when i start it has some diagnostic info come up then the screen goes completley blank. i changed the screen and the same problem came up so i think it must be a problem with the hard driv. thanks