Hi,

I recently got a computer second hand, still very good conditions and very good specs from a family member.

I booted the computer several times and everything worked like a charm. I asked my brother to connect the wireless network aerial into the back of wireless card. Unfortunately, he decided to pull it towards himself which moved it before switching it off. This caused a noise that sounded as though the fan was hitting something and after a few seconds, he turned it off.

Surprisingly when it was turned back on afterward's, it load up to the point where it said corrupt or missing files(probably corrupt) in windows32 (which is registry files so obviously a corrupt registry problem) and nothing loads beyond this point.

We began to try repair the problem as the screen basically said use original CD to repair and push r in first screen to do so. After finding the CD we got to the menu and a whole lot of 'I dont know' stuff began to appear at bottom of screen(obviously loading whatever) and then the next screen was a choice between exit menu, repair old system or begin new one. We tried the repair existing one and it went into the blue screen of death with a bad_pool_caller error which is weird considering the machine has a 4mb's of ram and is a quad core.

Help would seriously be appreciated!
Thanks

PS. If anything needs clarification then please ask.

Hello and welcome back to the forum.

The netwrok adaptor may of been damaged causing a short to the computer some were.You may have to reset BIOS via reset jumper on mainboard.Or reinstall windows.

Did you try rebooting and repeatedly tapping F8 and choose last known good config or safe mode?

I have marked your thread as "Open" in readyness for the team to help you.

JB.

Hey FishDawg, welcome to PCHF.

When you press -r- to repair, you should of come to a Recovery Console?

Thanks for the help but i managed to fix it on my own

I had to format the driver from another computer as they registry was just really screwed up. I installed Vista now so hopefully i wont have any further problems. I'm not going to put in another network card so ill just buy a USB wifi dongle

Thanks again for the help anyway

That is brilliant.

Glad it is resolved.

JB.