Guys,
My daughter's XP Pro system has run fine since install, which has been over 18 months. Today it has exhibited a strange behavior not seen before. It will start up fine, and work fine. But if left to go to "sleep," it will end up displaying an error message (white text on a black background) that a file is missing necessary for XP to run. It suggests that the CD be inserted and a repair install be performed.
I've observed this twice tonight. The first time it said a file titled c_437.nls was missing. A restart showed the file to be present. The second time it indicated that a file titled hal.dll was missing, and a repair install was suggested. Again, a restart brought XP Pro up again.
Does anyone have any idea why this behavior would suddenly appear? Is the "fix" as simple as inserting the CD and doing a repair install? Is something more sinister afoot?
TIA,
Jeff
My daughter's XP Pro system has run fine since install, which has been over 18 months. Today it has exhibited a strange behavior not seen before. It will start up fine, and work fine. But if left to go to "sleep," it will end up displaying an error message (white text on a black background) that a file is missing necessary for XP to run. It suggests that the CD be inserted and a repair install be performed.
I've observed this twice tonight. The first time it said a file titled c_437.nls was missing. A restart showed the file to be present. The second time it indicated that a file titled hal.dll was missing, and a repair install was suggested. Again, a restart brought XP Pro up again.
Does anyone have any idea why this behavior would suddenly appear? Is the "fix" as simple as inserting the CD and doing a repair install? Is something more sinister afoot?
TIA,
Jeff
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