Re: PLEASE HELP: 2 ERROR MESSAGES

My learned friend db,

I did indeed resolve the issue with my display. It appears that the problem
was with the graphics card. Yesterday, my new AGP card finally arrived and
the display was better immediately upon installing it. In fact, owing to the
fact that it is a more advanced card, the display is better than it was
before even when operating normally. Thank you again for your help with that.

As to my current issue, I got into BIOS by holding down F2. There, I had to
disable booting from the hard drive. There were three options; 1. Diskette 2.
Hard Drive and 3. CD. It seems as though it would not boot from the CD unless
I forced it to so I disabled booting from the hard drive.

It booted from the CD and a menu came up where I selected recovery console.
There I am asked:

1:C\WINDOWS
Which windows installation would you like to log onto (To cancel, press
ENTER)?

I must type a number, but I do not know which one. However it seems that
only the number “1” works.

Then it asks for administrator password. I do not know this.

What am I doing wrong?

Please advise

-Joe


"´¯`·.. ><)))º>`" wrote:

ok,

it seems that since nothing happened
when you inserted the windows cd
then your computer is booting from
the harddrive instead of the cd device.

you should double check your bios/cmos
settings and ensure that the cd is set
to be "the boot" device instead of the
disk/harddrive.

there should also be a setting inside
the cmos/bios that asks if you want
to check for additional boot devices.
you will need to say yes or enable or
on, that way if your pc starts without
a bootable cd then it will check for
other ways to boot up - in this case
it would be your harddrives.

check your pc manual or manufacturers
website to get the instructions with
accessing the bios/cmos menu. however
it basically entails pressing and holding
down a key at the same time you press
the power button that turns on the computer.

one thing to keep in mind is that if after
you set the cd to be the boot drive or if
it is already set as the boot drive according
to the cmos, then you have three problems.

1) the cd is faulty. this could be due to
either loose connections to the powersupply
and or the motherboard.

2) or the cd device simply burned out and
requires replacement.

3) or the cd drive could be dirty
as well

4) the cd you are using to boot up
is not a valid windows cd or may be
damaged or dirty.

from my perspective, i can not tell
from the above what you are experiencing.

remember you will have to use due diligence
to logical determine what you think is
happening with the booting issue.

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if you are finally able to boot up with
your windows cd, then you need to
let it run a setup program and it will
examine your system.

the setup program will then ask you
if you want to install windows or go
into recovery console.

at this point you will need to go
into the "recovery console" and
it will give you access to the harddrive
file system and a dos prompt will be
provided.

at the dos prompt follow the steps
i provided previously.

if you run a chkdsk via the recovery
console and directly from the dos prompt,
then it should repair the file system on
the harddisk as the message you
have been receiving is begging you to do.....

- db


ps: did you get that issue with the monitor
resolved?


"JOE X5" <JOEX5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My Learned friend db,

Thank you for your assistance in this matter and my previous ones. I
tried
to boot with the windows setup CD but nothing happened. In other
words, no
prompts came up, except that I was prompted to perform a chkdsk on the
f
drive. Should I let it run the chkdsk with the CD inside? Will that
make a
difference at all, since I tried a chkdsk before and it did nothing?
Or
should I select one of the options from the CD when it is autostarted
by XP?
If so, which one?

-Install windows XP
-Install optional windows components
-Perform additional tasks
-Check system compatibility

Also, may I add that I have no msconfig ability? I am told that
windows
cannot find msconfig.

I did have a virus called viva TermeX. But I followed the instructions
given
by another learned friend and removed it yesterday (I hope).

Please advise.

-Joe


"´¯`·.. ><)))º>`" wrote:



based on the search of the filename it
appears your computer contracted an
infection:

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Isass.exe%E2%80%99&src=IE-SearchBox

and the bugaboo is likely to be the cause of
your problems mentioned in 1 & 2.

however, the error message suggests the
virus is no longer found on your system.


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what i would suggest is to boot
with a windows setup cd and go
into the recovery console.

once you get to the dos prompt
via the recovery console run:

chkdsk /f
fixboot
fixmbr

afterwards type exit and boot
without your cd.

once you get back into the o.s.
you need to run an antivirus program.

it seems that if you had one installed,
the virus would not have been able
to transfer over to your system.

however, you can go here to
scan and disinfect your system:

http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.htm?sc_cid=mscom_hp

there are other antivirals as well.
however, i am only providing one
suggestion here of many available

if after you successfully remove the
infection you are still experiencing
a dysfunctional o.s., then you may
have to repair it.

this is due to the fact that eventhough
you removed the malicious file/virus, the
system files may have been corrupted and
dysfunctional. so a simply repair of the
o.s. may be in order.

keep in mind that if you cannot
get back into your o.s. after using
the recovery console method, then
it is likely the o.s. needs to be repaired
to replace the corrupted system files.

so let us know your status.....

- db




"JOE X5" <JOEX5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My learned friends,

My sincere apologies, this post was accidentally sent to the wrong
newsgroup
so I
have posted it again here.

I have two problems I require your help with.

1. When I sign into windows, I am greeted with the error message:
windows
cannot find ‘C:WINDOWS\system\Isass.exe’. Make sure that you typed
the
name
correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the
start
button,
and then click search.

How can I solve this problem?

2. I have an external hard drive and I believe it was shut down
improperly
during a chkdsk. Now, when I try to access it I get the error
message:
F:\ is
not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

I have tried running a chkdsk on it (chkdsk F:/f) but there is no
change.

Please advise as to 1 and 2. Thank you.

-Joe.





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