phamtastic
Junior Member
This is my problem. My friend came over to use my athlon xp 1700+ oem cpu to test out in his new system, he didn't have his cpu yet. I left the room and he installed it without the heatsink. And of course, after a short while the cpu fried! Well, he bought me a new retail boxed athlon 1700+. I installed it, but it wouldn't load Winxp up! It gave me an error that told me that there was a change in hardware and that I needed to restart. Ok, I did that, but I then got this error that said "ntoskrnl.exe was missing or corrupted, please re-stall." Ok, I tried booting off the cd-rom, but it would freeze at the very beginning of the install process. I couldn't even get to recovery mode, it would freeze and give me that damn error saying it couldn't load ntoskrnl. I then decided to mess with the cmos settings. I changed the frequency from 133 to 100mhz and guess what? It worked?
XP loaded fine, but my system was running at 1100mhz instead of 1700. I went to many websites that said solution the the error "missing or corrupted ntoskrnl" was to fix the boot.ini. I did that and it still doesn't work.
What is the problem? My system will only run the chip at 100 frequency. I never had this problem before the burnout. Is this a cpu problem or a motherboard problem? Or is there something wrong with windows xp?
XP loaded fine, but my system was running at 1100mhz instead of 1700. I went to many websites that said solution the the error "missing or corrupted ntoskrnl" was to fix the boot.ini. I did that and it still doesn't work.
What is the problem? My system will only run the chip at 100 frequency. I never had this problem before the burnout. Is this a cpu problem or a motherboard problem? Or is there something wrong with windows xp?
