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Old 21st Apr 2008, 10:42
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I have a Toshiba Pro Satellite A100 using WinXP SP2 and is having serious problems starting up. I have tried Safe mode to no avail. It comes up saying there is a possible corruption with Shell 32.dll then requests that you restart windows. You do this and occassionally get through to the desk top and which point it falls over and gives another darker blue screen saying IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and then goes off again before you can read the rest. It did say something had to be recovered for the registry but that was successful. just one problem, I cant find my original copy of Win XP on a CD !!
It basically keeps going round and round in circles trying to load windows before going back to teh black screen requesting that i start windows normally etc.

Any solutions or advice ??

Thanks in advance !!
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Old 21st Apr 2008, 11:33
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If you can not find a your copy then you might have to buy a new copy to reinstall windows.
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Old 21st Apr 2008, 11:42
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You have three options.

Get a XP CD, get a bootCD and run a full checkdisk on it or put the hard drive in another machine and run a full checkdisk on it.

A bootCD is something like bartPE boot
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Old 22nd Apr 2008, 15:14
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Hi

I think I have worked out the problem ! A bit stupid I know but was leaving it on 'stand by' on the metal flip top lid of my waste bin in my bedroon. I think the air flow underneath wasn't sufficent so the CPU was just getting a bit warm ! Seems to have been ok today as I have turned it of and put it back in its bag! I will get the fan checked out though just in case the vanes have accumulated a bit of dust ( and our house crawls with dust !). Whether there is likely to be any permanent damage I can't tell !

thanks again !


Dean
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Old 1st May 2008, 03:00
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I am glad that you sorted it out hopefully, but I must say that was a bit weird.
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