Posted June 26, 200816 yr Hi, can anyone help me with this, my brother's computer has suddenly stopped working. It was working fine before he went to bed but when he woke the next morning everything went down - avg, windows defender etc. It then said something about critical files. When he restarted windows loaded but then a blue screen came up. Vista log report said svc host and others never started or crashed on starting. (Possibly said something other than svc but we are'nt sure). He tried to load from disc but it says WINDOWS ERROR, PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA. When loading without boot disc it says HAL.DLL WINLOAD EXE FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPTED. He also checked his ram, he has 3 sticks ( 1 is 512 and 2 are 256 ) but only 2 banks so he removed his 512 which he said looks ( in his words ) frazzled. He plugged his spare 256 in and when he turned it back on it said DMI POOL DATA SUCCESS but then reverts to WINDOWS ERROR OR HAL.DLL CORRUPTED. I apologise if all this seems a bit strange bu i know almost nothing about computers and my brother can't ge on here to post. Any help would be massively appreciated, thanks. P.S. Incase i never said or made it clear he has windows vista i think its home or premium edition.
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