# Point, click, crash!!!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 2, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-click-crash/106934 "2002-05-02T20:36:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@bigdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigdave)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-click-crash/106934/1 "2002-05-02T20:36:32Z")

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Okay,  
this whole thing started when i was forced to restart my computer because it crashed when i was playin quake 3.  
Im runnin win XP Pro and when it got to that white loading bar at startup i got the error message

“C:\windows\system32\config\sysytem is damaged” and so on…

so i boot into dos and repalced the damaged system file from the c:\windows\repair folder. This seemed to work and i managed to boot back into windows, i did have to re-install my modem drives and change some other stuff back to normal.  
This is the second time this has happened to me and i was wondering if anyone else was any the wise of this problem?  
I think it might be somthin to do with my sound card as i keep gettin a distorted start up sound which sometimes locks the whole computer up with a loud high pitched squeak!!!

cheers,  
🆒