- Oct 31, 2000
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Damn, my system has been running ROCK SOLID for over a year, haven't had to reformat, it's just worked. So well in fact that I was feeling confident about backing up stuff.
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Last night I was watching Leno on my AIW 8500DV, and when it was over, I just muted the sound and shut off my screen. I usually just get back up and turn it on so I can watching the news, except for today - when I turned my monitor on, it looked like the ATI TV program had frozen on Leno.
I shut the program down, but my system was running SUPER SLOW. I thought that maybe I had accidentally hit the record button and it just filled up my hard drive with video, but I didn't find any signs of that happening. The system was still running like an dog, taking almost 5 MINUTES to open IE explorer, and when I tried to delete some files, I was getting some error messages about "cyclic redundancy errors".
I decided the best thing to do was just to reboot - wrong move :frown: The system took almost half an hour to boot up, even safe mode moved along at a snails pace to boot up. Before the bootup, I get a message saying "Component missing: cannot find SHLWAPI.DLL", and after clicking OK, the system just reboots........
Anybody have any idea what it could be? I can't run the XP recovery console because I don't utilize a floppy drive.
I'd like to hook the hard drive up to my parents computer, but how can I get past all of the secrity settings to get e-mail files and various other documents?
Last night I was watching Leno on my AIW 8500DV, and when it was over, I just muted the sound and shut off my screen. I usually just get back up and turn it on so I can watching the news, except for today - when I turned my monitor on, it looked like the ATI TV program had frozen on Leno.
I shut the program down, but my system was running SUPER SLOW. I thought that maybe I had accidentally hit the record button and it just filled up my hard drive with video, but I didn't find any signs of that happening. The system was still running like an dog, taking almost 5 MINUTES to open IE explorer, and when I tried to delete some files, I was getting some error messages about "cyclic redundancy errors".
I decided the best thing to do was just to reboot - wrong move :frown: The system took almost half an hour to boot up, even safe mode moved along at a snails pace to boot up. Before the bootup, I get a message saying "Component missing: cannot find SHLWAPI.DLL", and after clicking OK, the system just reboots........
I'd like to hook the hard drive up to my parents computer, but how can I get past all of the secrity settings to get e-mail files and various other documents?