Boot Errors with Windows XP

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From: Bouch (Bouch_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/11/04

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    Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:11:06 -0700

    My new machine was functioning well, until I belatedly instaled AVG Antivirus
    and discovered that I had already picked up the Backdoor IRC and Kepler(?)
    worms or trojans.

    I subsequently followed the quarantine procedure and deleted the
    permissable files discovered but was informed that there were damaged
    essential files that could not be dealt with. I then used Tune-Up Utilities
    2004 to clean up the registry and took some of their tweak advice.

    The machine still appeared to be OK but on the next start-up it would not
    boot Windows from the hard drive and asked for the restore cd. I probably
    made an error here, as after a couple of attempts at 'fixing' Windows, to no
    avail, I decided that it would be better to simply do a clean install, so
    followed the instructions to clear the partition and re-install XP.

    Now when I boot up I still can't get Windows up and running. Using the
    recovery cd I can see that there is a Windows installation on C:, and have
    used the BOOTCFG command to poit at it (now listed 3 times in the BOOTCFG!)
    but I get the following error messages at various points in the boot process:

    "This computer has a non-standard or invalid master boot record"

    "An unexpected error (32769) occured at line 5152 in
    d:\xpsp1\base\boot\setup\setup.c."

    The 'hang' point is at "verifying dmi pool data" and sometimes goes on to
    give the message:

    For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
    PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
    PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
    DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

    Can anyone shed any light?

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