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[tymzend]

Well, I had an issue after putting service pack 2 and Hoster 3.0 on where I couldn't get the singers display to work. I also had upgraded to the latest ATI drivers, dated 11/30/04.

I boot back to my other hard drive with Hoster 2.219 and Service Pack 1, and it works fine. So, I put Hoster 3.0 on the backup drive, and it works fine with Service Pack 1.

So, tonight, I decide I'm gonna sit down and fix the problem. I boot back to my main hard drive with SP2 and Hoster 3.0. Someone suggested going back and putting on the drivers that came with the install disk for the video card. So, I did.

I reboot the PC after install, and the display settings were set really high, so I back them down to 1024 x 768, and I get the dreaded blue screen of death. Reboot again, change the settings, blue screen of death.

I reboot yet again, and try to go to the help center for windows, and I get an error that some .dll file is missing.

So, I go back to my backup hard drive, and the same error for the help center.

I'm not saying that I didn't mess this up. I have 4 PC's on a network at my house, and am the back-up IT person at my place of employment, so I'm not totally retarded when it comes to PC's, but I can't seem to figure this one out.

I have a show tomorrow, and the back-up hard drive seems to work fine with Hoster, but if it goes down, I'm hosed.

Where should I start on trying to fix this? Just reinstall everything? I'd feel better just shipping the PC back to MTU so you guys could take a look at it, but I'm sure you'd probably need it long enough where I'd have to skip a show or 2.

Yes, I could have a virus. I'm not ruling anything out. I'm not saying I didn't do something to screw it up. I just want to fix it, but as touchy as these systems seem to be, frankly, I don't trust myself to have to re-set the whole thing back up.

Doug, I think you have my work number. If you want to call me to discuss, please do. 8-5pm CST.

Otherwise, any suggestions are appreciated. If you think I should just dump my music over to my back-up external hard drive and start over, let me know. But someone will need to post a detailed set-up for one of these PC's, so I can make sure I set it back up EXACTLY the way it came in the box to me.

Thanks