HAS ANYONE ENCOUNTERED THIS MESSAGE during boot????

[gourmettea]

Ok i run a pretty standard desktop....XP Pro 2400 athlon...MSI mobo....512K DDR pc2100 ram......40 gb and 70 gb hdd..NO OC.

This is somthing I've built over time. Everything is pretty new ~6months especially the mobo, processor and hdd's.

I encountered this message during the boot, after the memory test.

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows\system32\config\system
You can attemp to repair this file by starting windows setup using original setup CD Rom Select 'R' at first screen to repair"

I repaired it according to the intructions given and it worked for a day, then unexplicabily the next day the message was there again!

Then I formatted the HDD's and gave it a clean install of XP Pro. That worked for about a week then the same message happens again!

What do you guys and gals think? Please Help, is this a hardware or software issue?

Why would it work then stop?

Thank you in advance for your help and suggestions.

Happy Holidays!

-Frustrated Computer Owner that is about to toss this POS out the window and go intel or a prebuilt box (dell (evil))




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[redbeard1]

Is that where XP stores it's registry hives(?). You say your not overclocking, so that isn't it. Is it possible that your cpu cooler is starting to fail? What temperature is your cpu running? You could try to run hot cpu pro lite and see if it has any errors. You might try running the hard drive makers diagnostic utility to see if something is going bad with it. Maybe an extended run of memtest86 to see if there is a problem with the memory?

 

[Swampster]

Go to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B307545 and follow the directions contained therein and your problem will be solved.

 

[wnied]

how old is your hard drive? Could be that its dying on you, try setting the machine to do a disk check upon reboot and see if that solves the problem. Could just be that the area that your file is stored, may just be corrupt.

~wnied~

 

[monzi]

I made a GHOST IMAGE of my drive on A USB HDD...
and formatted it......


Dont waste your time, its a goner.
-Monzi

 

[gourmettea]

Thanks for the help...i'lll see if this works