My lan connection stopped working. Not finding anything obviously wrong I rebooted XP. It hung during the boot.
I saw:
- Intel splash screen
- Sony splash screen
- black screen with a blinking "dash" cursor
- cursor went down one line
- cursor went down another line
- hung on an even blacker screen
I tried a safe mode boot and saw the above sequence. Just before going to the "even blacker" screen the following messages appeared (this somewhat frrom memory)
Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)/windows/sytem32/ntoskrnl.exe
Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)/windows/sytem32/hal.dll
Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)/windows/sytem32/kdcom.dll
Everything hung after the display about kdcom.dll.
To see if memory was involved I removed both memory cards (500 MB each) and booted using twice, using just one card of memory at a time. Both safe mode boots failed as above.
I am stuck at this point. Any help would be much appreciated.
I saw:
- Intel splash screen
- Sony splash screen
- black screen with a blinking "dash" cursor
- cursor went down one line
- cursor went down another line
- hung on an even blacker screen
I tried a safe mode boot and saw the above sequence. Just before going to the "even blacker" screen the following messages appeared (this somewhat frrom memory)
Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)/windows/sytem32/ntoskrnl.exe
Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)/windows/sytem32/hal.dll
Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)/windows/sytem32/kdcom.dll
Everything hung after the display about kdcom.dll.
To see if memory was involved I removed both memory cards (500 MB each) and booted using twice, using just one card of memory at a time. Both safe mode boots failed as above.
I am stuck at this point. Any help would be much appreciated.