I've had this happen a few times from poweroutage, no UPS backup, etc. Sometimes you can fix this running BootCD utilities and it's easiest if you can roll back to a previous restore point (if you have this enabled on the affected computer). Normally my order of attempts would be
1) choose boot option for previous known good settings (works occasionally) 2) boot safe mode and run chkdsk /f on any available HDD's (usually you'll get same error in safe mode) 3) bootcd (Hirens is what I use, or BART) and check HDD/files for errors using utilities and chkdsk 4) use system restore using old restore point (also from Hirens mini-xp mode) 5) use install cd for XP to do system repair install lopaka ________________________________ From: Sam Franc <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, December 14, 2009 9:48:34 AM Subject: [H] Freeze up My wife has a W2000 box and she is computer illiterate. Last night she froze up her box somehow. Had to shut it down by the off switch. Nothing else would work. This am we get this message: "The procedure entry point get system wow 64 directory A could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" What needs to be done? I am not an expert. Sam
