still puzzled?

[water-tap]

p-4 1 gig ram Intel board with latest bios flash

160 gig drive, windows XP Pro + sp2

For some reason my computer has started giving me a lot of 'Bad Image'

errors. My Outlook Express won't open the address book or any messages.

I came down to the computer and noticed that it was still running but had
nothing on the screen and was unresponsive. I assume that the last time the
wife went to 'hibernate' the computer, it got hung up. I reset the power and
rebooted. Upon restarting it went into Disc check mode and eventually
started up, but I"m left with these 'bad image' prompts and various parts of
programs not working properly.

I"m thinking I'll have to try and back up what I can and then probably a
format and re-install.

Do you experts have any other ideas ?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Download and run a drive integrity check from the manufacturer of the hard
drive. You may have a failing drive.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[water-tap]

that's great advise Rick thankyou!!!

Hi,

Download and run a drive integrity check from the manufacturer of the
hard drive. You may have a failing drive.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

I think it may be that during the hibernation process, some, but not all of
the ram was copied to the hard drive. When he shut it down and restarted it,
it tried starting from the defective data. I wonder if there is a way to
clear the data... Maybe try another hibernation and then when it wakes up,
restart the computer?