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| Thread ID: 50508 | 2004-10-22 21:16:00 | Virus? Weird Computer Behavour | Brad H (738) | Press F1 |
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| 283735 | 2004-10-22 22:24:00 | ****!!!! ............. put in restore cds got 10% through and the computer locked I don't think this is a virus it seems more hardware??? | Brad H (738) | ||
| 283736 | 2004-10-22 22:26:00 | Send it back,Its obviously getting worse rather then better. What brand is it? |
metla (154) | ||
| 283737 | 2004-10-22 22:31:00 | acer, yeah I have information from the company that sold it to the uni might contact them on tuesday, can't get passed the bios now the entire thing is crashing straight away | Brad H (738) | ||
| 283738 | 2004-10-22 23:11:00 | IMHO it's not a virus or, if it is you also have a hardware problem . It's a rare virus that will affect the computer before windows loads . Could be a BIOS or boot sector virus of course which are nasty or one of the adware/spyware loggers that writes to a protected area of the hard drive, but if your having trouble before the hard drive is active spread your search a little wider . Does the the lappy have a diagnostic routine run from the BIOS? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 283739 | 2004-10-23 00:52:00 | what about the possibilty of a faulty RAM stick??, how many sticks is in it? | Prescott (11) | ||
| 283740 | 2004-10-23 01:30:00 | It's best to take a new item back to the supplier if it doesn't work. It's new and hardly used, so it's in a the early-failure mode.;-) If computers work for the first few hours they are likely to run for a long time. But failures do occur in the first few hours. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 283741 | 2004-10-23 04:09:00 | *bump* This an interesting one. I want to know what's going to happen next.:D |
mark c (247) | ||
| 283742 | 2004-10-23 11:49:00 | > what about the possibilty of a faulty RAM stick??, > how many sticks is in it? mate you deserve a beer. Got home from work and checked back here, faulty ram made me think opened up the back cover on the laptop ram cover found the ram stick to be about 2mm further out on the right side grabbed my wrist strap and pulled the stick out stuck it back in, all is fine, apart from the fact that I had corrupted my entire disk so had to completely rebuild computer...if only I had thought of this this morning...oh well at least it is working again. might get a tech to do a check of the hardware to make sure that there is nothing wrong. thanks for all the help everyone. :-) |
Brad H (738) | ||
| 283743 | 2004-10-23 22:30:00 | > > what about the possibilty of a faulty RAM stick??, > > how many sticks is in it? > > > mate you deserve a beer. > > Got home from work and checked back here, faulty ram > made me think opened up the back cover on the laptop > ram cover found the ram stick to be about 2mm further > out on the right side grabbed my wrist strap and > pulled the stick out stuck it back in, all is fine, > apart from the fact that I had corrupted my entire > disk so had to completely rebuild computer...if only > I had thought of this this morning...oh well at least > it is working again. might get a tech to do a check > of the hardware to make sure that there is nothing > wrong. thanks for all the help everyone. > > :-) ooh yeah, i got one right, :D dont forget the other posters that put in their suggestions..... now for that beer......:D |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 283744 | 2004-10-24 02:11:00 | paste a full log of hijackthis and maybe someone will know what the problems consists of.With a log that way there is something to start from. Hijackthis has a log of running files and files that run at startup (and other nasties that may lie in there) |
RoIdY (6252) | ||
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