XP Failed after trying to install VGA Card

[Guest]

I tried to install a new 3d Graphics card into a vacant PCI slot, this required some changes to be made to the CMOS settings, mainly the change for the system to read from AGp to PCI for monitor input, I have since been told that I should have installed a AGP card, I have removed the card and reset my CMOS settings, however when I rebooted XP the system asked me to reboot to last known good settings after a while XP loaded and went into checking the disk, it deleated a corrupted windows file after this session XP stopped and now on boot up displays the error message "Windows could not start because the following file was corrupt or missing,<windows root>system32\hal.dll. please reinstall this file.

I thought the best option would be to re-install XP from scratch but can not get a dos prompt to do this, I have been advised that a start up boot disk running scandisk would fix the problem, but unlike Win98 the sysyem option on control panel does not let you make a disk from there, I also run XP on my laptop whicch is where I was trying to make a startup disk.

Can anyone please help!

Joe

 

[neil]

To re-install XP you need to set the bios to boot from the CD and then
insert the XP CD re-start the PC and follow the instructions. You should be
prompted to press any key to boot from the CD.
If you want to make a DOS boot disk, right click on the A:\ drive and select
format then tick "create an MS DOS start-up disk", but this is not the way
to re-install windows.

Neil

I tried to install a new 3d Graphics card into a vacant PCI slot, this

required some changes to be made to the CMOS settings, mainly the change for
the system to read from AGp to PCI for monitor input, I have since been told
that I should have installed a AGP card, I have removed the card and reset
my CMOS settings, however when I rebooted XP the system asked me to reboot
to last known good settings after a while XP loaded and went into checking
the disk, it deleated a corrupted windows file after this session XP stopped
and now on boot up displays the error message "Windows could not start
because the following file was corrupt or missing,<windows
root>system32\hal.dll. please reinstall this file.

I thought the best option would be to re-install XP from scratch but can

not get a dos prompt to do this, I have been advised that a start up boot
disk running scandisk would fix the problem, but unlike Win98 the sysyem
option on control panel does not let you make a disk from there, I also run
XP on my laptop whicch is where I was trying to make a startup disk.