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matty
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O.P. I just want to vent!

So I fiddle around with the Windows API and force my desktop to show small icons instead of big ones horray I can code. So then I roally fuck up and have to restart my computer. Being the cool guy I am I say "screw restarting I will log off and back on" ya so that doesn't work computer wont respond to it. So ok I try and restart through the start menu ya no luck doesn't close any programs nothing acts like it hangs. So I restart through the Task Manager. All is well (aside from my streaming music was cut off http://di.fm btw) so I get up take a leak come back to my bed only to see...

<windows>\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupted. I think ok great what the fuck did I do now. So I come downstairs pop an SP2 cd into my computer extract the I386 folder and the expand.exe file and burn them to a CDRW. Ok great I figure this should solve my problems so I boot the laptop with my Windows98 Boot CD (haha its a bootdisk on a CD). And I type

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expand r:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32\hal.dll {enter}
This program cannot be run in DOS.

Ok so back to the drawing board. I erase that CD and expand hal.dll on my desktop and just burn that single 103kb file to the CD (good thing its still the RW). So I reboot with the CD Boot disk change cds, copy the file reboot and voila back in Windows. Now it has to install all the devices ok I can live with that. So I go to change the resolution... oops my finger slipped at 1400*1200 and I had clicked Apply not realizing it. So ok I can either wait for the count down or press N so I press N no luck screen is still blank... but whats this I can still see some picture far be it completly dim but I can still see it barely. So I go back into Display Properties reset the screen resolution click Apply and nothing... I still cant see shit like I should...

So I figure what the hell why not reboot into Safe Mode and reset the Display Settings there. So I reboot tap F8 and pop into Safe Mode BUT... it hangs at loading a driver... it completly locks up like wow I am not having the best luck right now. So I now have to leave for work with a laptop full of important information. So I figure I will reboot the laptop kill hal.dll and reboot then recopy it over and let the system do what it has to do and hope to god it will work...

I will update this when I get home and let you all know how my troubles are going.

Thanks for reading I hope you are enjoying the sorrow I am in right now...

Matty

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03-08-2006 07:56 PM

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RE: I just want to vent!

I suggest if you keep getting the hal.dll popping the Windows 98 Disc in and go through the Recovery system (if it's included on 98)...this fixed the problem when I had the hal.dll corrupt problem on XP. Although I used the XP disc obviously.

This post was edited on 03-08-2006 at 08:22 PM by _Humphreys.

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03-08-2006 08:19 PM

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O.P. RE: I just want to vent!

quote:
Originally posted by Carltos Cool
I suggest if you keep getting the hal.dll popping the Windows 98 Disc in and go through the Recovery system (if it's included on 98)...this fixed the problem when I had the hal.dll corrupt problem on XP. Although I used the XP disc obviously.

No offence I know how to fix it. I already got back into Windows but not the screen is really dim I am thinking its just the driver so it will be fixed when I remove and recopy hal.dll. On Windows 98 there isn't a recovery you have to remember Windows 98 is based on DOS. Windows XP is not. If my partition was NTFS Windows 98 anything wouldn't work. Luckily its Fat32 still.

03-08-2006 09:16 PM

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RE: I just want to vent!

Well good luck with whatever you're doing.

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03-08-2006 10:07 PM

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RE: I just want to vent!

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
show small icons instead of big ones

can't you do that in display properties?

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
log off and back on

since when has that ever done anything?

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
expand

expand from winxp isn't a DOS utility.

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
wait for the count down or press N

pressing N doesn't do anything?

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
still cant see shit like I should...

start up up up up up up up up enter tab tab tab tab tab enter tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab enter left left left left left left left left left left enter -- always good to have written down somewhere.

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
it hangs at loading a driver

did you wait until everything was reinstalled? if not... is it really that smart to restart?

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03-08-2006 10:29 PM

matty
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O.P. RE: I just want to vent!

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
can't you do that in display properties?

Acutally no, I used the Windows API to change the style of the ListView on the desktop.

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
since when has that ever done anything?

So it will reload my user profile and reset the desktop.

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
expand from winxp isn't a DOS utility.

Ya I realized that after I tried.

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
pressing N doesn't do anything?

Pressing N while its asking if you want to keep the settings should click the No button.

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
start up up up up up up up up enter tab tab tab tab tab enter tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab enter left left left left left left left left left left enter -- always good to have written down somewhere.

wtf?!? are yuo on about

quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
id you wait until everything was reinstalled? if not... is it really that smart to restart?

Yes I did then when booting into Safe Mode it hangs.

I do know how to fix it I just wanted to vent about the problem not ask for help lol.

03-08-2006 10:36 PM

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RE: I just want to vent!

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
quote: Originally posted by ShawnZ
start up up up up up up up up enter tab tab tab tab tab enter tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab enter left left left left left left left left left left enter -- always good to have written down somewhere.

wtf?!? are yuo on about

add the word button after everyone of those words and follow the directions. It works.

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03-08-2006 11:34 PM

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RE: I just want to vent!

Hmm, good luck getting it fixed

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03-08-2006 11:41 PM

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RE: I just want to vent!

quote:
Originally posted by lou_habs

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
quote: Originally posted by ShawnZ
start up up up up up up up up enter tab tab tab tab tab enter tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab enter left left left left left left left left left left enter -- always good to have written down somewhere.

wtf?!? are yuo on about

add the word button after everyone of those words and follow the directions. It works.

Doesn't work for me.

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03-09-2006 12:32 AM

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RE: RE: I just want to vent!

quote:
Originally posted by .Lou

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
quote: Originally posted by ShawnZ
start up up up up up up up up enter tab tab tab tab tab enter tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab enter left left left left left left left left left left enter -- always good to have written down somewhere.

wtf?!? are yuo on about

add the word button after everyone of those words and follow the directions. It works.

Followed the exact steps ShawnZ posted and it takes me........here

quote:
Originally posted by Matty
Being the cool guy I am I say "screw restarting I will log off and back on" ya so that doesn't work

Get a *NIX box

then you don't even need to log off and on again. just a few commands and that's it

Goodluck with your problem btw

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This post was edited on 01-04-2007 at 12:18 PM by Jesus.

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