I'll try to look in the bios and stuff, but it will have to be tomowwor, when I can have some sighted assistance, and I'm going to try to boot into save mode again
On 12/24/09, Hayden Presley <hdpres...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Interesting...disconnecting the net wouldn't work if you were still getting > that in safe mode; little runs when you boot it up in that mode, certainly > not antivrrus software. > Best Regards, > Hayden > > -----Original Message----- > From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On > Behalf Of shaun everiss > Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 9:48 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] OT: Need help ergently! > > weird. > maybe a virus. > I have had the same issue with an old system my grandpa has. > all his stuff is on an unsecured system because we didn't have the equipment > or software to do anything about it. > due to it dieing mainly because of all the spyware and viruses and the fact > that one of the fans in the power unit has been on the blink for some > months, i actually looked at recovery. > However because of the condition it was not possible. > So just reformat and lose your stuff. > All I can suggest, I almost lost everything with my wd 500gb elements > exploding. > Thanks to a couple lucky breaks, a drive with a dieing power switch my dad's > system and my cell, part of the net and a couple other things I mannaged to > lose vary little. > did your virus checker or something give any warning? > if not then it may not be a virus. > no virus does this anyway. > > at least I don't know one. > Ok so it aint a virus. > get someone to look in bios. > most new systems have smart detection which is internal monitoring of some > hardware, cpus, fans main board hdd etc. > if something is failing or has failed then someone sighted should probably > help you on this. > Ofcause not sure if you are blind or not, but if not using del or whatever > key gets you in the bios settings will help and have a look at bits of > stuff. > Remove the power wait for 20 mins open the system check the cards are all in > their slots. > turn on the system and listen with the case open. > if a fan or something is not working you should at least be able to hear it > and see it if you can. > NOt sure but people say you can see spinning components so it must do. > If you have a external hard drive caddy you could try connecting the drive > to your system, and transfering stuff off. > you probably can scan the hdd on that system to and fix any virus, etc. > however not windows. > Should be ok as long as you don't autorun the drive. > How in the basic terms of your problem I suggest some hardware is dead, > check the power supply and replace the battery, have a real good listen to > the system. > I say this because one day a friend of mine paniced and shut down his system > during a disk scan with norton disk docter because he was not used to the > noise and got scared. > this resulted in destruction of his boot record and required an reinstall of > the os only, which was fortunate. > Also fortunate for him because he was running dos 5.0 and I had 6.22 > however that was long time ago you can't do that with windows based system. > I am not sure how to answer your issue. > If you are able to fix this issue or even not I strongly recomend you buy an > external hard drive and then another to back it up. > I have 2 here. > the 640gb which is my main data drive and workhorse and a 1tb mybook which > stores backups. > every few months I manually sink the drive this can take half a day or so > but it means that in most cases I do have a coppy of the drive if not exact, > well almost. > If the drive does die I can change drives, till I can buy another, and then > transfer stuff over to it. > At 02:07 p.m. 25/12/2009, you wrote: >>I'm sorry that this is off topic, and I hope no one takes offense, but >>I need help, badly >>Heres the problem. I left today, and shut down my system, things were >>working fine then, however, when I came back, something went horribly >>wrong, I turned on the system, and it booted up like normal. The >>windows logon screen came up, but it took forever to do anything. >>Here is the real puzzling part, the window went away, and the desktop >>never loaded, however, if I push the power button on my PC, the logoff >>screen shows up, and it shuts down like normal. I've tried rebooting, >>I've tried to reboot even in safe mode, nothing works, it just keeps >>doing the same thing. I've even tried unplugging it and plugging it >>back in, although that really probably served no perpose. >>As it stands, right now I'm still having this issue, and am at a loss >>as to what to do. 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