guys, i have reinstalled XP like 3 times in the last 5 days. this is making me insane. here's all the problems i noted, maybe someone can make sense of it.
not sure how it went down before, but today the thing freezes, and like the patient guy i am =), i wait for it. then a blue screen pops up with error message:
"problem caused by file nv4. nv4 beginning dump of physical memory. dumping physical memory to disk"
then, the computer reboots.
it gets stuck in quasi-DOS with the error message "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system.
insert XP disk into cd drive and restart. hit R to repair"
well, repair dont work, so i end up reinstalling windows everytime this happens. could the file "nv4" be norton antivirus? cause it seems to happen after its installed, but im really not sure.
lastly, i have always noticed that when devices are displayed on boot-up, there are a few with the same IRQ number. not sure if that is relevant but i though they were all supposed to have unique numbers.
thanks in advance for any help.
not sure how it went down before, but today the thing freezes, and like the patient guy i am =), i wait for it. then a blue screen pops up with error message:
"problem caused by file nv4. nv4 beginning dump of physical memory. dumping physical memory to disk"
then, the computer reboots.
it gets stuck in quasi-DOS with the error message "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system.
insert XP disk into cd drive and restart. hit R to repair"
well, repair dont work, so i end up reinstalling windows everytime this happens. could the file "nv4" be norton antivirus? cause it seems to happen after its installed, but im really not sure.
lastly, i have always noticed that when devices are displayed on boot-up, there are a few with the same IRQ number. not sure if that is relevant but i though they were all supposed to have unique numbers.
thanks in advance for any help.