Your can try the "repair mode" if you can boot with your install disc -OR- run the chkdsk /r or /f (or both) command from the repair console. You can also try those provided you can boot into "safe mode w/networking" enabled. Hopefully that will do one of two things, correct possible OS corruption or repair file damage.
If the PC has never been attended to as in true system maint. upkeep and/or file housekeeping it all builds up to some letdown as on older PC's it becomes too much to exclude true h/w faults. Even if you correct the present fault, it may come back because the overhead of file r/w or storage, etc., may exceed the ability of being properly adhere to as time passes. So, if there are many old pgms. or files that are no longer required, needed, old or just need to be gone, do such that delete or remove(un-install) to reduce.
To help remove pgms. fully, I like REVO uninstaller, get the free version and allow it to handle *full* unistalls.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/chkdsk.mspx?mfr=true
tada -----Willy ![]()
My daughter's 1501 keeps shutting down and I get multiple errors.
1 is runtime error couldn't locate run 2vvjy and the other is value creation failed @ line 451.
I have Viper Security on it and have run CCleaner
Thanks for your help
rob6571@bellsouth.net

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