very 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 ?

 

[Guest]

Image problems would be directly related to youre video adapter,download
the latest software/drivers from the mfg.Also,before & after you update go to
run typeXDIAG Run the direct X utility.

 

[water-tap]

excellent advice, will do and thankyou for the feedback!

 

[Og]

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 ?

Ignore Andrew E.
He is our resident Troll who insists upon spewing garbage "advice" onto
unsuspecting users. Sometimes his "advice" is just plain wrong; sometimes
his advice is downright harmful.

BadImage is an error generated by the Operating System...
I don't have a specific answer to your question, but I suspect you are
seeing errors resulting either from bad clusters on your hard drive, or from
failing RAM memory.
Here is a link to explanation of what "BadImage" errors represent:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.badimageformatexception.aspx