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Hi.

Recently my computer wont reboot. When ever I reboot it just like stops doing anything the screen goes black and I get a message on the screen that the monitor has lost contact. The computer is in like an idle. So I have to push the power button in for it to shut down completely. When I then restart the computer it go in to a black screen that says "system memory has changed push F1 to continue F2 to for set up" I've tried a system restore and I've tried booting back to the last non good configuration. That seemed to help for a wile, but it has started doing this again. On virus scan AVG came up with ntoskrnl.exe......... So I googeled this ntoskrnl.exe and came up with some of the causes

Keyboard issue
Miscellaneous corruption
Corrupt boot.ini file.
Missing boot.ini file.
Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file.
Windows NT installed on a partition bigger then 7.8GB  
Corrupted hard disk drive or severely corrupted Windows.

I don't think it's a Keyboard.
Is this a virus? Is there away to fix this with out rewrighting the heard drive?

I've not had this one personally but you can try two things;
a) boot up in safe mode (keep hitting F8 whilst booting) and then try running a repair from your XP disk.
b) put your XP disk in the drive, reboot and keep hitting DEL until you get into the BIOS, configure your BIOS so that the XP disk in the drive is the primary boot device and then run it and repair the HD.
Either should enable you to repair the damaged files and get you up and running again

Thanks for the reply.  

Ok I'll give it a try.