From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 01:52:39 EDT
just had a similar experience with my A21p..
its been smooth and even gone through a clone job from 32gig to 48gig..
suddenly, nothing will work to get it to boot and finish..
complains about some .dll being missing or corrupt..
finally i had top stick it in the T21 and copy from the T21's system32
subdirectory, the named file..
then, the A21p boots and runs nicely..
all this occured after i applied SP2 for w2k..
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicky Avery" <nicky_at_wwavs.com>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: startup problem
> > I am having a problem with my thinkpad (pentium II, running win98). It
> > goes through some of startup, loads the audio drivers, scans for viruses
> > and then says "hibernation file already present," then it stops. It
won't
> > go any further or do anything else.
>
> Tim,
>
> I think your request for help got lost in the heat and emotion over
> warranties so I'll try.
>
> You seem to be having a Windows experience.
>
> Boot from a floppy or in Safe Mode and run SCANDISK or, better, Norton
> Disk Dr.
>
> Reboot and, just before you get the Windross boot screen (clouds), press
> F8. Select the option to step through the boot and load drivers one by
> one. At some point I think it likely you will see a complaint that some
> driver, VXD or DLL is MIA or corrupted (either the last listed or the
> next, which is not listed - they don't want to make it too easy). Boot
> in Safe Mode or off a floppy and and take the appropriate action which
> may be as easy as reloading the file from the W98 CD (you may have to
> search the CAB files and extract it) or remming out a reference line in
> WIN or SYS.INI till you can reload the app which is missing the file.
>
> All this may not solve your problem but it's a good start. Worst case is
> that you'll have to reinstall Windose but you've probably done that
> before.
>
> HTH
>
> Nicky
>
>
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