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Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 956
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 9:19 pm: |     |
Can anyone recommend a local repair person or shop to work on a PC? They gotta be really good and really up on the latest adware, spyware, viruses, patches, fixes, XP error messages, software, hardware, etc. No amateurs, part-timers, students, high-school teachers or wannabes, please.
 THANK YOU |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 360
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:21 pm: | |
I can probably do it for you - are you having specific Adware problems? We'd probably have to do a bit of registry work to clean things up completely.
Hopefully you've got some kind of antivirus loaded and running; the rest of it we can handle with "free for personal use" software.
Let me know...
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Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 957
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:29 pm: | |
The issue isnt spyware - its a bad XP error message and the damn thing wont boot. I'll post a bit more detail tomorrow. THANKS. |
sbenois
Supporter
Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14009
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:46 pm: | |
Ooooh goody a bad XP error. Post it! Post it now! |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 1399
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 12:07 am: | |
It's been kind of slow here as of late, let us know the code, let us know the code.... |
Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 958
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 7:55 am: | |
Thank you all that responded here and via PL. The error message is:
"Bad image checksum. The heading checksum does not match computed checksum."
I'll follow up with you this morning.
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sbenois
Supporter
Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14016
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 9:29 am: | |
Did you do an upgrade to XP or put in memory recently?
Is that the EXACT error message or is there a code
C0000221 |
Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 962
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 9:34 am: | |
Actually its my son's computer and I'll have to get the exact wording from him when he gets home from school. I don't know about the code.
And no, he did NOT do an upgrade to XP or put in memory recently (at least I don't think so).
His computer is NOT online, so it can't be viruses or spyware. |
sbenois
Supporter
Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14018
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 9:53 am: | |
See if it's this message:
C0000221 - Bad Image Checksum. User32.dll is possibly corrupt. The header check sum does not match the computed check sum.
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monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 1401
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 9:54 am: | |
Even if he hasn't installed memory lately, it could be that a stick of memory is bad (or is going bad), if he has more than one stick in he can try swapping the sticks and restarting to see if the problem persists. It could also be that a memory slot is bad.
If the error message mentions the "user32.dll" file, follow the steps at the following link and see if that fixes the problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326687
I would try the RAM first. |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 363
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 9:55 am: | |
That's fixable, for sure. |
Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 964
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 9:55 am: | |
Yeah, that looks like it.... |
sbenois
Supporter
Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14019
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 10:12 am: | |
We'll have your son's PC fixed in no time! |
Gatica
Citizen
Username: Katracho
Post Number: 150
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 10:15 am: | |
I did not know the FANTASTIC 4 were in the PC business! |
Network & PC Care
Citizen
Username: Npccare
Post Number: 108
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 10:55 am: | |
This can be an easy fix or a frustrating one.
First thing I would try is the RAM... If you have 2 sticks, try using 1 and then the other.
I guess you haven't upgraded to SP2 or anything? This just happened out of nowhere? |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 367
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 5:56 pm: | |
If you decide to buy memory, www.newegg.com is a very inexpensive (and fast) option. Don't buy it unless you're sure that's the problem, of course. |
Mayor McCheese
Supporter
Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 553
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 12:14 pm: | |
While I love newegg, I have found that often the best prices for memory on the web are at www.isellsurplus.com |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 377
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 3:34 pm: | |
Do they sell name-brand memory? I'm all for saving a few bucks, but generic memory makes me sad... |
Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 971
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 3:52 pm: | |
My son's much to Jung for generic memory... |
Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 972
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 5:42 pm: | |
Greetings,
This is Soulful Mr T's son. This is the exact error message:
STOP: c0000221 {Bad Image Checksum}
The image urlmon.dll is possibly corrupt. The header checksum does not match the computed checksum.
This message comes up after the windows load screen. I tried swapping the RAM sticks but it still didnt work. When i tried using only one module, it didnt even make it to the Dell splash screen (the first thing you see when its booting up).
Im using a Dell Dimension 8200 if that makes any difference. |
Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 973
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 6:01 pm: | |
Gosh, ain't he adorable? |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 1417
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 9:01 pm: | |
Did you recently update to Service Pack 2?
Take a look at these pages & see if they are of help
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Q_21394989.html
scrol down for the replies
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326687&Product=winxp
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Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 2706
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 3:31 am: | |
Do he borrow disks from any of his friends? Virus' can spread that way too. |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 386
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 12:35 pm: | |
I can fix this. PM me with a phone number, please. It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes or so.
Its either a simple case of a corrupted DLL, or its bad memory. I don't think you can run on a single memory stick, so I'll bring a handful over to test with.
My money is on bad memory, which means its probably a file problem.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 10088
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 1:23 pm: | |
Try booting off the XP CD. When you do that, there is an option to repair the existing installation on your hard disk.
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