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.