I purchased my Dell Dimension 2400 Desktop several years ago in order to give my college bound son what I believed to be top notch computer capability here at home. I have never regretted purchasing a Dell. Although I do get a little queasey when it is time to replace the ink cartridges. Our Dell all in one printer has kept up with every request. It was the time when I began a home based business that I realized I could not just keep hitting the save button or I was going to run out of memory. As the system began to slow down sometimes to the speed of smell, that was when I turned to Ebay, bid, and won several flash drive pens. These guys were the greatest thing since sliced bread. Make a file, move a file, make a file, move a file. Cool. There is just one thing...you can not turn me loose with sharp knives, heavy machinery, and, heaven for bid, the computer. The more I tried to relieve the memory stress, the more this system spazzes out. What did I do? Got me by the webcam!! Dell can't even help me, and I have made plenty of calls to tech support. Some how I tweaked when I should have twanged, and now I have programs that are missing application files to open them up. I have system restored back to when Jesus was a boy and that didn't help. I have read and re-read windows xp, gone to microsoft website; everything shy of calling pc 911. Error messages about virtuals and dlls and \32 only muddle my brain that much more. I established another account for myself and that at least gets me up and moving. Unfortunately program systems in the old account are not reachable. Anybody have a clue what I screwed up or if I can reclaim lost data?
Hello! Thanks for posting your message to the Neighborhood. As I was reading your post, I began to have flashbacks of when a very similar situation occurred with one of our Dell Optiplex GX1 P3 office computers. It, at the time, was our main office PC, and somehow I seemed to crash it. All we could get was the blue screen of death, a situation many of us are unfortunately too familiar with..HEHE. Anyhow, with the blue screen, the computer is pretty much at a loss. At the time, we were running Windows XP Version SP2. Somehow, the guys in the shop were able to load an older version of Windows (XP ver SP1 I think) into the unit. After that, it was up and running in no time, with no lost data and no more error codes(as I had rec'd the same as what you mentioned). I didnt even know that a computer could have two different OS's at the same time. After all that was done, when I powered the computer up, I would get the BIOS Boot screen, that asked me which version of Windows I wanted to run, so I chose the older version that we installed(XPvSP1 I think), and it worked flawlessly. If someone in the office came along that didnt know better and chose the SP2 version at startup, they would get the blue screen and be locked out. All they woukld have to do is power it down, and choose the other Windows OS. This computer still powers up and works great, we have just upgraded to Laptops here in the office and in the shop. So, maybe try to install another version of Windows and see what happens. From what I was told, the DLLS and /32 errors were Windows related. Thats all that the guys did, and it worked great(really helped me out from explaining what I did, AND we were able to retrieve everything).
Hope this info helps! Have a Good Day, LYNZIANNE c/o CHAOTICZ CUSTOMZ
Oh, BTW, that PC was too very maxed out on memory(like 93% full), as this was before the FlashDrives had become so popular/affordable, and external bookdrives were out. It still ran pretty quick and smooth after we switched to the other Windows operating system(without all of the error codes).
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