Specifications of the computer involved.
Sempron 2200+ at stock
Biostar M7NCG 400
Mushkin Basic 512MB PC3200
Sapphire Radeon 9200SE
Samsung SP1614N 160GB, 8MB
During Windows XP installation, before the GUI part kicks in, the computer will have to reboot.
So upon reboot, I get an error: says hal.dll is missing or corrupted.
Googled it and found the solution, which is to delete BOOT.INI and then rebuild it in the recovery console.
I did that, but I forgot to rebuild BOOT.INI. But hey, windows XP got to the setup screen after showing the following error:
Invalid BOOT.INI file
booting from c:\windows
After windows had been completely installed, I went ahead and rebuild the BOOT.INI file. Guess what, the problem with the hal.dll reappeared. When I deleted it, it will boot, except with that Invalid BOOT.INI error again.
While windows will load smoothly, I find that the Invalid BOOT.INI error adds like 4-5 seconds or so to the boot time. While I can live with that, I would like to know whether this will cause other errors etc. or if someone has a fix
BTW, I have tried replacing hal.dll from other computers and some has no effect while others cause an error that says that the OS could no load kernel dlls, or something to that extent.
Also, I ran the Samsung hard drive setup utility and theres this Samsung ONTRACK thing that appears while booting that says Hit spacebar to boot from floppy. Don't know if Samsung's firmware? thing may be the source of the problem.
Sempron 2200+ at stock
Biostar M7NCG 400
Mushkin Basic 512MB PC3200
Sapphire Radeon 9200SE
Samsung SP1614N 160GB, 8MB
During Windows XP installation, before the GUI part kicks in, the computer will have to reboot.
So upon reboot, I get an error: says hal.dll is missing or corrupted.
Googled it and found the solution, which is to delete BOOT.INI and then rebuild it in the recovery console.
I did that, but I forgot to rebuild BOOT.INI. But hey, windows XP got to the setup screen after showing the following error:
Invalid BOOT.INI file
booting from c:\windows
After windows had been completely installed, I went ahead and rebuild the BOOT.INI file. Guess what, the problem with the hal.dll reappeared. When I deleted it, it will boot, except with that Invalid BOOT.INI error again.
While windows will load smoothly, I find that the Invalid BOOT.INI error adds like 4-5 seconds or so to the boot time. While I can live with that, I would like to know whether this will cause other errors etc. or if someone has a fix
BTW, I have tried replacing hal.dll from other computers and some has no effect while others cause an error that says that the OS could no load kernel dlls, or something to that extent.
Also, I ran the Samsung hard drive setup utility and theres this Samsung ONTRACK thing that appears while booting that says Hit spacebar to boot from floppy. Don't know if Samsung's firmware? thing may be the source of the problem.