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Please help,

I have the blue screen of death on my laptop and the following error message


STOP:c0000221 {bad image checksum}

The image kernel32.dll is possibly corrupt. The header checksum does not match the computed checksum.

Normally this would prompt a restart in safe mode but I can t access any of the f8 features without it giving me this error message. I have tried everything I can think of and am scared that I have bricked my machine.

Any ideas?

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hmm, find your windows xp installation disc, pop it in, and boot from it. select recovery console. and then type in this at the prompt:

bootcfg /rebuild

this should fix your problem if kernel32.dll is corrupt. let me know how it goes.

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