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My computer is being strange.

Started by Tendrax , Oct 31 2006 10:51 PM

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Posted 31 October 2006 - 10:51 PM

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Ok, so Earlier this evening, my sister was trying to get the printer to work. In the proccess she restarted the computer, and when it was booting back up it said that the file "hal.dll" was"missing or corrupt", and I had to reinstall windows. This is the same thing it told me when I was transfering it from my other computer(it's an IDE HD <

).

My question for you guys is, what exaactlly is hal.dll, and why would it just suddenlly corrupt like that?

Also, I am going to check the IDE connections, and make sure nothings loose, but I JUST finished reinstalling windows, so I haven't done it yet.

Thanks for any help/info guys.

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Posted 31 October 2006 - 10:59 PM

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Well, I googled hal.dll, and this is what I found:

Description:
Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), a file that hides hardware complexities from Windows applications

AKA:

QUOTE (Karko @ Aug 21 2011, 07:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

that 12 year old canadian kid who used to play BF2 before going to WoW and becoming addicted

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Posted 31 October 2006 - 11:00 PM

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That sounds useful... Thanks. Lol.

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Posted 01 November 2006 - 07:49 AM

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QUOTE (otaku_4_life @ Oct 31 2006, 10:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, I googled hal.dll, and this is what I found:

Description:
Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), a file that hides hardware complexities from Windows applications

because if the programs started to realize the complexities of hardware, they might take over the computer! (or just get realy dipressed)

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Posted 01 November 2006 - 05:09 PM

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QUOTE (Tazato @ Nov 1 2006, 07:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

because if the programs started to realize the complexities of hardware, they might take over the computer! (or just get realy dipressed)

Ahahahahaha.

So, Can anyone tell me why it might have just corrupted/gone missing for no reason?

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Posted 01 November 2006 - 05:53 PM

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i installed a seperate copy of xp for security testing some apps, and when i deleted the windows folder while booted into the other windows copy, i had the same error as you while trying to boot into the windows that's gone. I'd think virus personally, as it seems to have corruped more than one file