Re: SBS 2003 - Hal.dll Getting Currupt

Hardware issues are funny that way, it works until it doesn't.

Consistenly getting that error would mean, in my mind, a strong possibility of disk corruption - especially with a (yet unknown type) raid set.

If you have hardware raid, you should be able to enter the raid diagnostics at boot time, and run some tests on the controller, disks, and raid set from there. Your raid manufacturer documentation would be a big help here.

Having everything work, except your hal.dll go missing being the only problem you see, is just .... odd. There must be more to it. I'm not aware of any malware that would do this, but it's possible I suppose and perhaps someone else has.

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Les Connor [SBS-MVP]


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"Irving Duran" <iduran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:96C85EA9-11B3-4305-87A8-A3A4977CE5E3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is a server and is Optima PS3000 server (clone server) that has a SATA RAID 1 (I believe) with a Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz (82801GR/GH Chipset).

Run a diagnosis was my next step to do. But I am not sure why this hardware problem started to kick in like that. Whenever you say diagnosis are you reffering to a check disk with Microsoft check disk? or other type of special applications on safe mode? or on recovery console?

Because I notice that whenever I am going to reboot the server I check for the hal.dll in System32 and it is always gone. As I said before this is the 3rd time that this happened so far since August/September. So what I have done so far is to make a copy of it after reinstalling the OS so I could restore it later if this happens again.

Thanks for your help in this problem process.

"Les Connor" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OUI6HzhVJHA.1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hardware raid? software raid? OS drive is raid 1, or 5?

How about drive and/or controller diagnostics available from the boot screen?

Is this a desktop (workstation) grade machine, or a server grade? Make?

I think you're going to need to start at the lowest hardware level possible, and run some diagnostics.

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Les Connor [SBS-MVP]


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"Irving Duran" <iduran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:45FE5159-BB5D-4F7D-9C68-551141560A2A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is a RAID drive and the motherboard is a Intel Duo Core. Yes, I have done a chkdsk, and the first two times I did not received any type of error but on the third time the chkdsk didn't even start.

Which it make me guess that my main hd is dying, but I do not want to believe that.

Any recommendations would be appreciate it.

Thank You in advance.

"Les Connor" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eu57T6ZVJHA.200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What kind of disk/motherboard subsystem do you have (i.e. disk type, raid, etc.)

Have you done chkdsk? Under the circumstances, I'd suspect hardware failure of some type (resulting in disk corruption).

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Les Connor [SBS-MVP]


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"Irving Duran" <iduran@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:37156F4B-D48F-4588-904E-4C51D4A05995@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i am having a really big problem lately. i have a sbs 2003 and every so
often in the last month my hal.dll has been corrupt and/or deleted. i am
receiving the following error message

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file."

and i tried to do the tutorial that are online but no luck yet. what i've
been doing in order to resolve this problem would be reinstalling the OS and
it works fine for a while but then goes back to have the hal.dll corrupt.

any ideas what it could be causing the problem?





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