lsass.exe - entry point not found -- samiamigc -- samsrv.dll

[schneidz]

hi, i finally (regretably) upgraded to winxp. when it rebooted during the install it gave an error:

lsass.exe - entry point not found
the procedure entry point samiamigc could not be located in the dynamic link library samsrv.dll.

with just a button that says [ok]. if i hit ok i get a blue background and i can move the mouse curser but no start button, icons, ... 3-finger solute (ctrl-alt-del) does nothing.

same with safe-mode, safe-mode with cammand prompt, ...

i had to start the upgrade from win 2k because for some reason when i restart my pc with the disk in the drive it will say: press any key to start install. then after that the screen goes blank (the green light on the cdrom flickers and i can hear it spinning but after about 1 minute it stops spinning and the screen remains blank -- i left it alone for at least 1 hour.) - i know it is not the bios boot sequence because i am currently using knoppix live-cd .

i am not planning on buying a new pc with xp pre-loaded and i don't feel like wasting money on a new cd with no guarantee that it would work.

i have a dell with a celeron 2 ghz 512 mb ram ati 9800xt

any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[-pops-]

Are you installing on top of W2K?

It would be better to format the drive and install afresh. If your XP disk is an upgrade only version then all that is required to prove that you have a qualifying version of a previous version of Windows is to insert that early version disk at some point during the install procedure - it will tell you when.

[andsome]

Most of the problems on forums are as a result of upgrading from a previous O.S. I did not have XP until I had a PC made with XP in mind. This is why there is NO WAY that I will ever put Vista onto this computer. :D

[schneidz]

thanks for replying... i agree that oem'ed versions (restore-cd's) of operating systems usually have less problems. that's because a gate-p technician spends about :30 mins on your order before shipping on the up-ex truck.

the format/ fresh install wont help me since when i tried that initially the computer just froze with a blank screen. (after the 'press any key to install windows xp' prompt the computer did absolutely nothing. no error message, ... nothing).

since i lost my win 2k disk i have no windows operating system on this computer.

is there any hope for this pc or do i have to buy a new pc ?

fyi: i duel boot redhat-9 but i doubt that has any thing to do with it.

[schneidz]

i just spent 2 hours with microsoft support. they are stumped. they transferred me to a product order line where i would have to pay $ 28 for a non-defective disk. i declined the order out of principle of re-buying something i already own.

i guess i am forced to go without windows on my pc.

thanks for all contributions.

just a thought. since i already own windows-xp (theoretically, the product key is what you are paying for) it would not be illigal for me to download and burn the contents of the cd.

where can i get the contents from ?

[doug]

A tricky situation there schneidz. I can only say that this Forum will not encourage any links of this kind - see item 7 in the guidelines.

7) Do not ask for, offer to supply, or post links to, copies of commercial software, MP3s, movies, CD Keys, Product Keys, Serial Numbers, etc. or other intellectual property for which you do not hold the copyright.

[schneidz]

fyi:

hi, the original problem was only due partially to a bad cd. my hardrive setup is:

hda1 - ext2-boot

hda2 - ext3

hda3 - swap

hdb1 - fat32

hdb2 - ntfs

since windows wants the c-drive to be the first partition on the first disk it basically crashed on the setup because it cant read a linux harddrive.

i physically unplugged the first harddrive (as well as mess with a few jumpers and updated the bios). reformat ntfs.

i then booted up with knoppix live-usb (live-cd/ dvd should also work) i clicked on the penguin icon and did 'services -> start ssh server' and mount the ntfs drive.

i got my brothers laptop that came with xp preinstalled and used winscp to copy the i386 directory to the machine running knoppix. (i didnt try to use wine to execute winnt.exe, i thought the xp cd's recovery console would allow me to do it but for some reason it wouldnt let me in that directory -- access denied). whatever, i used bart-pe to start the install with winnt32.exe.

ironically my cd-key didnt work, i used the product key under my brothers laptop. is this illigal ? amways, i own a legit copy so im ok.

so after a restart the remainder of the install program went fine.

now hopefully i wont have any more complications when i re-attach my redhat disk and use grub to boot windows.

hope this helps...