bowelripper Posted January 26, 2005 Posted January 26, 2005 My wireless network went down, so I had to reset the router and everything to get it going again. After I configured it I got a bluescreen of death saying the cause of the problem was the file ar5211.sys (which is the driver file for the wireless PCI card). I restarted, but immediatly after getting into Windows XP (SP2), I got the bluescreen again. I tried restarting once more, but the same thing happened (bluescreen).Then, when restarting, I got the message "A disk read error occurred - Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart" right after the "Verifying DMA pool" message. I could not get into Windows XP anymore.I reinstalled Windows on another partition, keeping the original installation intact on drive C. After reinstallation the disk read error message disappeared. I found out that the file ntoskrnl.exe was missing from the \system32 directory. I copied it into there, and tried booting into the original, faulty XP installation. I only ended up booting into a black screen with only the mouse cursor present.Does anybody have any idea what happened? Seems like the wireless equipment somehow f***ed up Windows?Do you think there is a chance I could get the original XP installation up & going again? (I'm tired of reinstallations.)Thanks!PS. If you were wondering...Router: Topcom Skyracer Pro WBR 654. PCI card: Topcom Skyracer Pro PCI 150
Astalavista Posted January 26, 2005 Posted January 26, 2005 sounds more like a virus or adware to be than your wireless driver
bowelripper Posted January 26, 2005 Author Posted January 26, 2005 sounds more like a virus or adware to be than your wireless driverScanned for viruses with NOD32 - no viruses found. Removed ad- and spyware with Ad-Aware.I guess this could not be the cause...
keytotime Posted January 26, 2005 Posted January 26, 2005 When booting press f8, before the xp bootscreen, then select last known good configuratin. This might help.
bowelripper Posted January 26, 2005 Author Posted January 26, 2005 When booting press f8, before the xp bootscreen, then select last known good configuratin. This might help.That did not work. Still get a black screen with mouse cursor only.I guess I'll have to reinstall ...
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