re: fatal crashes in Windows XP -atapi.sys
Monday, June 28, 2010 at 6:35 pm
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Posted by Robert
(1 messages posted)
After reading many message boards on this topic, I searched my computer for atapi.sys
files and found 3 in the following files:
1. C:\I386
2. C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
3. C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS
The first one was older. The second and third ones seemed identical, with a date
of 04/13/2008. But in lieu of looking for another copy on another computer, I replaced
the third one from the SYSTEM32 subfolder with the second one (from ServicePackFiles
subfolder). I since have had two successful startups. Is this just a coincidence?
The files seemed identical.
On Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 8:00 am, armysarge48 wrote:
>I have come across this problem several times on customers computers. Some of the
>BS security software/adware and viruses replace the atapi.sys file. Look at the
>Time/date of the file. If you have SP3 installed it should be 04/13/2008 11:40
AM.
> If it isn't then find a good copy of the file and replace it.
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