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Pointman

I have no idea what happened! Last night, we were trying to get a game of spades going. I decided to restart my PC. Well, when I did, I got a message saying something like: Unable to start windows, this file may be missing or corupt: WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

It says to put my Windows CD in and there is an option to repair it. All it does when I hit R for repair is take me to what I think is a DOS prompt, starting at C:\WINDOWS. I have no idea what to do from there.

I tried to reinstall Windows, but it says it does not see a current version of Windows on my system. This means to install my Windows XP update, I need to put in the disc from a previous version of Windows. Well, I DON"T HAVE one! I had WinME, but I don't have a disc for it because it was installed on my system when I bought it. Will ANY old windows disc work? Can I maybe borrow one from a friend that has a disc for an older version?

I'm in a hell of a bind here, and I HOPE one of you guys can help me out. I'll see if I can get ICQ and/or TS up on this PC. It's pretty old though, I thinks it's only got a 133MHz procesor in it, and Windows 95 lol.
 
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Pointman

Nevermind! I called my friend's dad up and he walked me through it. It's all good now, I just need to reinstall my vid and sound drivers.
 
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Knox

It's all Novalogic's fault! Those pricks are out to get the COG brothers! You must have downloaded the Yahoo multiplayer drivers patch called "Spade.0" that Scuddman and I were using last night! LOL!

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta [COG]


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What exactly DID happen?
 
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Pointman

LMAO. I have NO idea. It was working fine (with the exception of being able to get into the game of spades). I hit restart, then when the PC rebooted, I got that message. I tried hitting F8 and then choosing the option to go back to the last known working setup of Windows. That didn't work either.

What I ended up doing was putting in my WinXP setup disc, I chose repair, then I renamed c:\windows\system32\config\system to system.old and then copied a new system file from the c:\windows\repair directory (the repair console is just a DOS prompt). After that, I restarted, and Windows booted up. I had to reinstall my vid card, sound card, and ethernet card drivers and I was all set.

Funny thing is, I think I'm better off... While reinstalling my vid card driver, I found some optional things I could install that I didn't install last time. There were some pretty cool features I added to my vid card.
 
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Grendel

I'm in a hell of a bind here, and I HOPE one of you guys can help me out. I'll see if I can get ICQ and/or TS up on this PC. It's pretty old though, I thinks it's only got a 133MHz procesor in it, and Windows 95 lol.
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Dude, with that setup you are WAAAAY above the system requirements for K-Diddy's new old hottness - RS Platinum Pack!

Bitter in California [COG]
 
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Scuddman

LMAO @ Gren!

I just finished putting in floppy #30 for Covert Ops. I had to underclock my processor and take out a stick of RAM, but I think I can play now...
 
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