OH NO! What did BootSkin do to my computer!?

November 22, 2003 2:17 PM from

Hello. I downloaded BootSkin from the Stardock website to change my boot screen skin. I correctly installed it (I run Win XP Pro) and downloaded some boot screens from wincustomize.com but none of them would work, I kept getting an error message. But I don't care about that. When I applied one of the skins that came with BootSkin and I rebooted I got an error message in DOS saying "sorry for the inconvenience but Win XP did not load correctly." Then I was given options to either boot normally or boot using changes that were know to work, or something like that. I tried starting up like normal and the same problem happened. I tried booting with the changed settings option and it did boot, but now I get an error message that says "RUNDLL: Error loading C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll. A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed," my monitor resolution is now at 4bit and cannot be changed and there's a piercing whine coming from my speakers. I tried using BootSkin to restore my boot skin to default and it is now back to the original boot skin but the problem persists. What has happened? I didn't do anything wrong. I thought this wasn't supposed to happen. I could use system restore but I've never used it before and I would have to save some data to disk (assuming that's possible under these conditions). What can I do? Thank you for any information you can give.

Jeremy

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Reply #1 November 22, 2003 2:53 PM from

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I can't really help with your specific problem Jeremy but I can say that I have used system restore in the past with no problems at all. It doesn't remove personal data from your system other than perhaps program settings or somesuch. Any software you installed after the point to which you restore will have to be re-installed but as far as I know that is about the only downside..

If I am wrong I am sure it won't be long before we hear about it...

Reply #2 November 22, 2003 5:10 PM from

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Hmm, looks like Your NVidia driver is broken. Don't know why to be honest. Did You try to re-install or update Your video driver ? Would be worth a try.

Reply #3 November 22, 2003 6:28 PM from

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NvCpl.dll is the nVidia file for your Display Properties in Control Panel....Un-install Bootskin and re-install your nVidia graphics drivers (should be version 52.16).

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