Overclocked my Asus A8ne, now my os is defective

[mattburk]

I tried over clocking my Asus A8ne and now I cannot boot into windows.
I get an error message saying that "the file windos\system32\config\system is missing or corrupted."
I have a good psu and I am using a 74gig raptor to the number 3 SATA port.
I cleared the bios, and still get the same error message.
I know how to get to the repair menu, but I do not know what to type after that.
What do I type or what should I do?
Thanks
Matt

 

[Promethply]

Which OS are you using?

Hopefully you regularly backed up your files.

I remembered when trying to overclock my old system with Win98 SE and the good old Intel BX chipset, the pci buss got overclocked as well, which corrupted some critical OS files in the old Fujitsu drive (but some harddrive can stand overclocked pci buss better).

So I ended up reinstalling the OS, but luckily I had always backed up files onto another harddrive.

I hope you don't get this stage, but I think if your system files got corrupted, you may have to reinstall your OS.

 

[mattburk]

Windows xp home with sp2

 

[mattburk]

I am trying to reload the os, and I keep getting dll error messages saying that the file is corrupted or missing. Do I have a bad copy of an os, or should I slow format instead of fast?

 

[Promethply]

AFAIK, once some critical OS files gets corrupted, you have to reinstall, but then there may be some other ways to salvage the damaged OS.

You may get better response if you repost in the Operating Systems section of the forum.

Good luck

 

[mattburk]

Thanks I just posted over there, someone else is having a similar problem. The general answer was clean your disk, my disk is new, and I reformated.
Thanks for your help
Matt

 

[Promethply]

Do you use some kind of power surge protection?

If not, you may want to get one for your system.

At the same time, sometimes, some CD/DVD drive may have a hard time reading burned CD roms.

It probably does not matter, but I usually use the slow format when installing/reinstalling the OS.

 

[LTC8K6]

Boot to the XP CD.

Press ENTER to start the windows setup.
You do not want the recovery console.
Do not press R yet.

Accept the license agreement.

Select the windows installation you want to repair.

Press R

I think that's it....