Gerry

Damnyankee

What is your computer make and model?

What exactly is Windows XP CD? Has the system been upgraded from Windows
98 to Windows XP?

Please post copy of the Error Report as it appears in Event Viewer.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Damnyankee wrote:
> This appears to be a fairly common problem and noone seems to have an
> answer.
>
> This error occurred to me right after using House Trend Micro (report
> was clean) and then I started using Microsoft Excel. I received a
> notice for a Microsoft update. I clicked OK, the update was done, I
> saved my Excel work, and rebooted. Upon reboot, I received this
> identical vgaoem.fon missing/corrupt error. I tried Windows Recovery
> with no success. Using my 2nd PC, I went online to Google a
> solution. Some were saying faulty hard drive.
>
> So I took out my hard drive from PC #1 with the vgaoem.fon
> missing/corrupt error and slaved it to PC #2. Hard drive from PC#1
> is 100% functional, so the hard drive was not the problem. With that
> said, I pulled off all my saved files and my program files from
> PC#1's hard drive and transferred over to PC#2.
>
> I put PC#1 harddrive into PC#1 and still cannot reinstall the
> vgaoem.fon - but I did manage to get it limping along and as it
> proceeded forward, Windows kept deleting all of my .fon files. Every
> one of them.
>
> So either there's a bug in Microsoft's Update software or an
> undetected virus/trojan hit my PC in 2 minutes (HIGHLY unlikely).
>
> From this day forward, there will be no more Microsoft XP updates for
> me.
>
> I have yet to find a fix...so if you ever have this problem, your
> hard drive will never function as primary again - but you can use it
> as a slave.
>
> DY
>
> "James Scheinbaum" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry about not replying sooner. I will do my best to give you some
>> info. The OS is Windows XP Pro SR2 and it has been on this computer
>> since. I was a custom build from an IT guy I knew a while ago. It
>> is a Intel P4 3GHz system and a 60 GIG HD. I will have to get the
>> box out of my daughters room and crack it open. I have a memory
>> test on CD to check the system memory. If that turns out it maybe
>> the HArd drive. I hope not.
>>
>> "Gerry" wrote:
>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> What is the history of the operating system on the computer since
>>> new? When was the computer new? What is the computer make and model?
>>>
>>> I told you last week this is a problem many users have found
>>> difficult to resolve, such that it is difficult to find a report
>>> where a solution was found.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Gerry
>>> ~~~~
>>> FCA
>>> Stourport, England
>>> Enquire, plan and execute
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> James Scheinbaum wrote:
>>>> I have a bootable CD to access my daughter documents which I was
>>>> able to copy to floppies.
>>>> I can't load the OEM Windows XP software or the SP2 Software.
>>>> When running the Active Boot Disk I run out of Memory fast. I show
>>>> only 220 KB of memory. Is thaT MY PROBLEM?
>>>>
>>>> Also the VGAOEM.FON file is misssing. I can't copy it to the
>>>> folder for some reason.
>>>>
>>>> I need to diagnose my computer to find out what the hell is going
>>>> on.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Previous Post>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Question
>>>>
>>>> I have a box that is running Win XP Pro SP1 and has been fine
>>>> until last night. It is my daughters machine and she is doing
>>>> homework on it. Yesterday she comes to me and say's it won't work.
>>>>
>>>> I started it up and it say's it has a
>>>> "missing or corrupt file windows\system32\vgaoem.fon" and would I
>>>> like to repair it using the original install CD.
>>>> Ok I tried that and it won't work. Yes, I went into the Bios and
>>>> set CD to start at boot. It would boot up and then give me an
>>>> error beep and return to the original error just described.
>>>> I downloaded the 6 setup disks and used them to start up the system
>>>> and got "missing or corrupt bios??.inf". Would you like to exit and
>>>> restart?"
>>>>
>>>> (?? = I forgot the filename)
>>>>
>>>> All I want to do is access the A:drive in a DOS Environment, then
>>>> Access the c: root, then get my daughters homework off.
>>>>
>>>> Please Help. I have now spent over 6 hrs working on this issue
>>>> before bugging you guys so now I'm desparate and don't want to
>>>> turn it over to the geek squad just yet.