Stop: c0000221 Bad Image checksum 1

[Abdelhaq]

whenever i boot my system (fresh install)i get a blue screen saying:

"STOP: c0000221 {bad image checksum} the image ole32.dll is possibly corrupt, the header checksum does not match the computed checksum."


What to do?

 

[Armstrong]

Good morning,

Sounds like you may have a hardware/driver conflict. See the MS Q article @

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q101/0/96.asp

Also, make sure that you are using all of the proprietary OEM drivers for your drive controller, motherboard on-board hardware etc. I have seen this come up b4 using the wrong drivers for a UDMA/66 disk controller on a Mylex MOBO. Best of luck to you. Greg Armstrong
A+ MCSE+I

 

[Abdelhaq]

The URL u pointed me to does not exist anymore, thx anyway, but how can i install drivers if i can't run my OS. Plz direct me to the solution step by step, 'cause i'm turning grey here.

 

[Armstrong]

Sorry about that. Goto

http://support.microsoft.com/support

and type in the Q Article number: Q101096. Greg Armstrong
A+ MCSE+I

 

[Abdelhaq]

Thx armstrong, I've already seen that one and thus i removed all of my unnecessary hardware such as my second HDD, my AGP graphiccard, my cd-writer.
I've made my primary HDD seagate 10GB the master and my cd-rom my slave, still i get the error

 

[Armstrong]

What make/model of Motherboard are you using? Is the Contoller Card on-board? Greg Armstrong
A+ MCSE+I

 

[Abdelhaq]

I'm using a MSI K7TPro2 mainboard with a AMD Athlon 800Mhz CPU, Seagate HDD 10GB, 256MB ram

 

[Armstrong]

The first thing that I would do is to confirm the jumper settings on the motherboard for UDMA/Bus Speeds and verify that all settings in BIOS are correct. Greg Armstrong
A+ MCSE+I

 

[Armstrong]

Here is a link to check your BIOS settings against, for quick reference.

http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/mainboards/msi/k7tpro2/index2.html

Greg Armstrong
A+ MCSE+I

 

[sulis]

Did you find a solution to your problem? I am receiving exactly the same error message installing Windows 2000 server on a Dell dimension XPS.
John Weikert

 

[Abdelhaq]

Yes i did, the problem was a conflict with my cd-rom driver, so try and change your cd-rom drive with a newer one, this was a solution to my prob.
Win2000 is very sensitive about these things
Let me know if it worked

 

[sulis]

Thanks for the quick response. I have a call out with Dell at the moment, I'll wait and see if they come up with the same solution.