System Crash

[Rick]

I was wondering if anyone could help.

Running Windows XP home edition on an AMD Athalon XP
procesor with ASUS A7N8X Motherboard and 512 Mb of RAM, I
get an error about every two weeks on startup:

"Windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt
\windows\system32\config\system "

I have resored the registry hives and all is well, but
this happens on a regular basis.

More recently, I came across the error on startup that
the NTOSKRNL.EXE file was corrupted, but was able to
recover using the extract utility and the installation
disk.

The hard drive diagnostics are fine (Western Digital
WD800BB). Can anyone help explain why this is crashing
so often, and what I can do to prevent this from
happening in the future?

Many thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I was wondering if anyone could help.

Running Windows XP home edition on an AMD Athalon XP
procesor with ASUS A7N8X Motherboard and 512 Mb of RAM, I
get an error about every two weeks on startup:

"Windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt
\windows\system32\config\system "

I have resored the registry hives and all is well, but
this happens on a regular basis.

More recently, I came across the error on startup that
the NTOSKRNL.EXE file was corrupted, but was able to
recover using the extract utility and the installation
disk.

The hard drive diagnostics are fine (Western Digital
WD800BB). Can anyone help explain why this is crashing
so often, and what I can do to prevent this from
happening in the future?

Many thanks in advance

Had the same thing but it didn't matter in my case because
I was, anyway, in the midst of constructing another
computer to replace the one with the error. Basically, all
I could determine was that some file had been either
removed or damaged in the System32 folder and cleaning the
registry didn't help because, probably, the error was
deleted in the "cleaning" process. Sorry about that but
reformat might be only way out....