Hi folks...
I'm praying somone can assist me as I've been waiting to hear back from
Microsoft on this as it started (when I noticed - my daughter's computer)
when trying to run updates from Microsoft.
Her system is older, running XP Pro and there isn't much on it believe it or
not. AVG is the anti-virus and I've also tried running some registry scans.
No avail, but cleaned a few things up. Mostly having to run in Safe Mode and
Safe Mode w/Networking, yet will still eventually end up getting that blue
screen and many times re-looping and getting stuck & F8 doesn't always work
either.

Again, this is my daughter’s computer, and I believe this started about a
week or so ago. She finally told me a few days ago and when I started taking
a look at her system, this is all new, not past issues I’ve experienced.

1. The first thing I tried to do was to run a scan on her system to see if
there were virus, etc.

2. Then I tried to run a windows update and that’s when I personally
encountered the first blue screen of many…

That .dll is on the xp cd i believe,try tapping F8,safe mode,enter xp as
administrator,with xp cd installed,go to my computer,open cdrom,locate
the .dll,copy,copy to windows folder.The same can be done by booting to xp
cd,recovery,read kb307654 or kb314058 You could also boot to xp cd,select
install xp,"repair this copy"...

"kittikatt60" wrote:

The file hal.dll, is required for windows to operate. It is used by
windows when communicating with your computer's harware. It acts as a
translator between windows and your hardware, so that the same windows
'commands' can be executed on hardware manufactured by a variety of
different vendors.

Change your memory around or remove a module if you have multiple
modules, alternatively get a module from somewhere else.