On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Dennis Rogov <[email protected]> wrote: > If i try to load a windows 2003 CD it freezes once it says loading windows at > the bottom
Hardware fault of some kind. Others have suggested the disk subsystem, but if it was the disk subsystem I would not expect the CD to puke at that stage. It's not really looking at the disk yet, except maybe to get the partition table. If the partition table was poison, Windows wouldn't even get to the point where it could complain about a particular file. (Disk subsystem = IDE/SATA/SCSI/RAID controller, physical disks, cables, disk backplane if any.) Faulty CPU, RAM, or motherboard can cause just about any kind of symptom in the world. You say it's a Dell. Download Dell's diagnostics and run the full suite. > ... dies when it tries to load acpitabl.dat file... That *may* indicate a problem with the motherboard. That file name must be short for "ACPI table", and ACPI is how the OS talks to the motherboard and main BIOS services. However, I'm reasoning on really weak evidence here, so I wouldn't put much stock in it. It could easily be something else, and the file name is just a coincidence. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
