Problem, corrupt system file.

[Azza]

My PC died about an hour and a half ago and everytime i restarted it it kept saying 'no signal' on the monior, anyways i took the power cables out etc, put them back in, tryed to reboot, but it keep saying no signal. It has only just come on and when it started it said that file
'C:/Windows/system32/config had been removed or was corrupt' adn that windows couldnt load.

Ive reparied windows and im running 3DMark06 at the moment, and it seems to be going fine.

Anybody have any idea what the hell has happened?

Thanks

Full specs

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-D
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series EL-DDR CAS2
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ 250GB ST3250824AS SATA-II 8MB Cache
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
NEC ND-4570A-GNB Black 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer DVD-Writer
1.44Mb Sony Black Floppy Disk Drive
Coolermaster LLC-U02 Musketeer
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Silver)
580w Tagan EasyCon - TG580-U15 - 2Force Silent Modular PSU
Logitech Media Keyboard Elite
Razer DiamondBack Magma 1600dpi Gaming Mouse
17" Viewsonic VX724 TFT ,1280x1024 , 3 ms , 500:1 , 300 cd/m2
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk

 

[Rokusho]

You could have just been unlucky in that the file got corrupted,

A massive list could probably be generated about how the file got modified or broken

 

[Explicit]

Happened to me once after a mobo bios flash...

XP repair sorted it though