The replacement motherboard came and I installed it. Works now. And since it was the same make and model as the one that failed, I did not even...
Well, I hope the motherboard is the problem. I tracked down a reasonably priced replacement ASUS P4800SE in Hong Kong and it should arrive in a...
As Neil suggested, I tried to clean up the motherboard and reseated everything (except the CPU) with no luck. (I probably burnt out one of the...
Good point. When I swapped out the video card, I did not change anything in the operating system. I couldn't, since I've never had anything but...
Thanks for the video card suggestion, Dennis. Swapped that out too for a video card known to work. Same problem. It does sound like a...
The power supply does not appear to be the problem. I swapped out the power supply, and still had the same dark screen problem. I also swapped...
That's something I hadn't thought of. But it makes sense. Any way to check it other than swapping out the power supply? I don't have an extra...
Although I said that the battery was lithium ion, it's not. It's the lithium coin cell primary battery that fits on the motherboard. Wanted to...
I have a home-built computer with an ASUS motherboard and an Intel Pentium 4. It's 4 or 5 years old now. We have had few problems with it, but...
Thanks for the suggestion. Tried it, but it did not help.
Whenever I open Microsoft Office programs (XP Version 2002), I see a notice that the program is being installed. I recently re-installed my...
Well, I finally gave up, after running out of new ideas to try. Wiped the hard drive and started over. Thanks for your help, Pete.
I decided to keep trying with the repair install. (All my data is backed up, so I have nothing to lose.) Now I consistently get the...
Thanks, Pete. I saw that article. But I can't get into Windows at all, so I can't do what it suggests. Looks like I'm stuck with doing a...
Thanks for the pointer to the disk diagnostics. I ran them. The hard disk is fine. I decided to do a repair install of Windows XP to see if...
Good point. It's a Western Digital drive, and I have a disk that has Data Lifeguard Tools on it. That is supposed to have diagnostics, but I...
Actually, I think I'll probably just buy a new drive, install XP on that, and use this drive as a second drive. Then at least it will be easier...
To continue this sorry saga, I found a Microsoft support website that told how to deal with the ntoskrnl.exe problem. So here is where I am at...
One further note. I tried booting up in safe mode with command prompts. The computer just gets to the first line and hangs. That first line...
Now that's even more interesting. I went to a website recommended in another thread (http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm)...
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