On one of my laptops that has not been used for a few weeks, I get the dreaded blue screen when booting up. The windows XP main screen thing comes up and then when it looks like it's going to go into windows, I get a blue screen that says something like: the image url.dll is possibly corrupt. check header checksum does not match. That is paraphrased b/c the blue screen does not last long. Then windows tries to reboot (never actually getting into the windows screen) and it does this over and over w/ no end in sight. Can I fix something on my end or is this a take your computer in type thing? Thanks!
Update - after googling till my eyes hurt, found 2 sites that helped. http://www.pcbanter.net/archive/index.php/t-91011.html http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1062279245 (thanks to the person that provided the link) In the end I got into the computer but it will be reformatted shortly. What I did was rename the url.dll file (and subsequently the urlmon.dll), copy the clean .dl_ files, rename to .dll files. This computer is a Compaq and the files on their disk are .dl_ files (which took awhile to figure out). It's running but getting some .dll error messages on reboot, but I can at least get in and take what I need, which is not much. The main thing was getting into my Outlook and getting what I needed there which I am still working on as getting an error message there too...
dude, I had that propblem 2 weeks ago. I found a reputable person in craigslist.org and he fixed it for $50.
Took awhile and would have gladly paid someone $50 to do it had I known how long it was going to take... What a freakin nightmare. NO CLUE what caused this either. None.