John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed May 19 07:21:43 CDT 2004
I don't think a reinstall will not make changes. It sets up default values to the registry and stuff. Whether you would lose all your programs is another story but I suspect you would. I believe it creates a brand new registry which would trash all installed programs. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 7:37 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue? I've got another pc that's the same make and model, so I took the drive out, slaved it in this other one and ran scandisk, disk cleanup and defrag. The pc now starts by itself, which is a lot better than it did last time, so I'm going to copy ths dll from one pc to the other, and see if it works. Although I keep getting "Explorer.exe has created errors and will be shut down" every 30 seconds. Thanks for the help so far though :-) I've even tried running windows repair install again, but that hasn't worked either. Can you do a 95/98 and reinstall over the top without losing any settings etc? Jon -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: 19 May 2004 12:32 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue? Well, it sounds like you are hosed. I googled ks.dll and it is a file that can be downloaded from Microsoft's web site. If you downloaded it and placed it (manually) in the System32 directory then you may get further. However this file is used for debugging driver problems and may be being called from some driver having issues so getting the file in place might not solve the issue. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:13 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue? yeah, that was the first thing I did - no luck :-( Jon -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: 18 May 2004 21:48 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue? Have you tried windows repair install? John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:48 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue? I can see it in the BIOS, there are no beep codes. It all starts booting into windows, does the black startup screen, then the white one with the windows logo on it, then bombs out into a blue STOP screen and tells me that it can't load c:\winnt\system32\drivers\ks.dll Jon -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: 18 May 2004 12:39 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue? Is the bios running? No beep codes? Video displaying the typical memory scan etc? Is the memory amount normal? Can you enter the bios and check if the system sees the hard disk? John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:21 AM To: Dba-Tech (E-mail) Subject: [dba-Tech] hardware issue? One of my colleagues has just knocked over a tower system that was sitting nicely on the floor onto someone else's foot... aside from the obvious Health and Safety issues (and the beating he's going to get from me), I can't make the pc boot into windows (2K)... I've tried the emergency repair console, and booting into safe and normal modes with no success... I'm going to try putting it in another box as a slave to see if I can scandisk and replace the driver that it says it can't load... if they fail, what are my options? Reinstall? Jon The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available on request from : webmaster at alcontrol.co.uk ALcontrol Laboratories is a trading division of ALcontrol UK Limited. Registered Office: Templeborough House, Mill Close, Rotherham, S60 1BZ. 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