I got an IBM Thinkpad T42. For probably over a year it hasn’t work, and I didn’t try to really do anything since I got a new thinkpad right before it stopped working. I’m trying to fix this up for someone now.
Here’s the problem.
When I power on, I press the blue ‘Access IBM’ button.
After a minute, i get the following message:
\minint\system32\biosinfo.inf could not be loaded
error 4096
I then restart the system until I get to the screen that tells me windows XP did not shut down normally.
I choose safe mode.
When it starts to go through everything, these are the last 2 files it gets hung up on.
mup.sys
agp440.sys (the last one)
I only include mup.sys because that’s a problem I’ve had with my other thinkpad when it overheats and crashes sometimes.
When all the files are listed, something comes up at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds saying something about pressing escape.
I press escape.
A blue screen comes up only for a second.
STOP: c0000221 {Bad Image checksum}
The image kernel32.dll is possibly corrupt. The header checksum does not match the computed checksum.
It then goes to the windowsXP load screen with the graphic and the horizontal bar moving. (it’s not frozen, just gets hung up and loops forever)
I restart the system. try ‘last good configuration’
and as I type this, it’s been about 15 minutes at the windows xp load screen.
When I start in safe mode, I also sometimes get these errors instead of the checksum one:
There has been a signature failure. A disk read error occurred.
or..
STOP: c0000221 Unknown HardError
\SystemRoot\system32\ntdll.dll
Anyone have any ideas?
Not sure if it’s corrupted files, a corrupted HDD that needs replacement or something else. I was possibly gonna sell this so I want to know if it can be anything besides the hard drive.
If you have a restore CD, you can try reinstalling everything. If it doesn’t work, then you need a new hard drive. Them you use the restore CD with the new hard drive and viola!
New Thinkpads are expensive, you should be able to make money on this even you replace the hard drive.
My computer did this before. Asked a professional and he told me i had to get a whole new hard drive.
As you have tried everything i would normally suggest, your only option is to reinstall Windows over the top