First, thanks everyone for your help.
Okay, just to cover all the basis I did run a different spyware
detector/remover. I'd done this before with three different programs,
and supposedly fixed everything. The new one came up with 272 items--
but half of those were only cookies. Still.....
I'm still having the driver problem. Here's what I did last night.
1. Checked the capacitors for bulging. They're ok.
2. Ran the spyware program--cleaned things up.
3. Rolled back the video driver. Driver date 10-22-06.
The yellow checkmark in Device Manager went away.
4. Set the clock to the current time. (11:15 pm)
(It was exactly 2 hours behind.)
5. Rebooted without the XP disk in the drive. Boot OK!
6. GeForce driver has the yellow question mark beside it AGAIN!
7. Uninstalled GeForce driver. Received message,
"Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be neaded
to boot up the computer."
8. Clicked Ok. Windows rebooting (without disk). OK
9. Now "Video Controller" has the yellow question mark.
10. I run the Install Wizard to install the driver. I choose
to find the driver myself and direct it to the 10-22-06
driver. The wizard installs the driver, with much screen
flickering, a black screen for several seconds, more
flickering. Wizard finishes and screen resolution is very
large and monitor settings are low. I change these back to
the way they were.
11. The yellow question mark has gone away. Things look normal.
12. Uninstalled some of the software that was causing the spyware.
13. Rebooted.
14. The yellow question mark is back by the NVIDIA driver.
Went to bed.
15. This morning the clock was behind exactly an hour.
Well, that's the latest saga. I forgot to try the floppy.
The MB, processor, fans, power supply, graphic card, RAM, and case are
three years old. Got all new ones. Granted, not expensive ones. Good
deal on EggHead(?) Floppy drive is two years old. HP CD burner is
about 7 years old. DVD burner is one year old.
Thanks for all your help.
Diane
-- In [email protected], "JIM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ivan,
>
> > Jim, I agree!!! I still think that one should do
> > sweeps for Spyware,
>
> I also don't think that spyware or viruses or whatever will do all
of this.
> It just sounds like a tired old machine. I personall think that
using System
> Restore to go back to an earlier time trumps scans for malware.
There's no
> benefit to the bad guys in make disable a computer, that could
otherwise be
> used to send viruses etc
>
> Jim
>
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