Winlogon.exe - Bad Image

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I left my laptop on last night and went to bed. In the morning the
application I was in was frozen and I couldn't access any program. I turned
off the computer and then turned it back on. At first, I got a file
corruption error dealing with "hal.dll." Then I used my XP CD to repair the
file. The next thing I know I have another file corruption error dealing
with "pci.sys". Again, I ran the repair disc. Now I can get as far as the
Windows XP logo on boot up but then it just hangs with a windows werror
message that has "winlogo.exe - bad image" as its header. The actual file
that is bad is real long but ends with the following: "...comctl32.dll is not
a vald windows image."

Is there anything I can do to repir and restore.

Thanks
 
I left my laptop on last night and went to bed. In the morning the
application I was in was frozen and I couldn't access any program. I
turned off the computer and then turned it back on. At first, I got a
file corruption error dealing with "hal.dll." Then I used my XP CD to
repair the file. The next thing I know I have another file corruption
error dealing with "pci.sys". Again, I ran the repair disc. Now I
can get as far as the Windows XP logo on boot up but then it just
hangs with a windows werror message that has "winlogo.exe - bad image"
as its header. The actual file that is bad is real long but ends with
the following: "...comctl32.dll is not a vald windows image."

Is there anything I can do to repir and restore.

Thanks
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Possible RAM problem ?
 
What makes you think it might be a RAM problem? Recently I sent this laptop
back to Dell because after I upgraded the memory from 256MB to 512MB the
computer would not boot up at all. Dell determined that it the motherboard
was bad. Two months ago they replaced it along with a new screen which was
also needed. Why did you first think it might be a RAM problem? All the
device diagnostics come up positive with no errors. However when I run
chkdsk /r I get a message that says one or more errors have been found and
fixed. (I have run this four times already).
 
Your hard drive is failing. Back up any files you need immediately and
replace the drive.
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What makes you think it might be a RAM problem? Recently I sent this
laptop back to Dell because after I upgraded the memory from 256MB to
512MB the computer would not boot up at all. Dell determined that it
the motherboard was bad. Two months ago they replaced it along with a
new screen which was also needed. Why did you first think it might be
a RAM problem? All the device diagnostics come up positive with no
errors. However when I run chkdsk /r I get a message that says one or
more errors have been found and fixed. (I have run this four times
already).
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Just my first guess.

In your post you mentioned winlogo.exe. I assume you meant winlogon.exe
right ?
 
Interesting. Yes it was the message "winlogon.exe - Bad Image" that I was
referring to. Today, i took the computer to a professional computer problem
solver and data recovery center. It will be interesting to see what they
determine. These posts have been interesting. Thanks.
 
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