Two most likely causes are hardware issues or system compromise. If you have no other evidence of system compromise and system scans cleanly in safe mode with two different anti-spyware programs, then it tilts toward an intermittent hardware problem.
I would grab Ewido and Spybot (both free) if you don't have anti-spyware s/w already. Also you want to do a sfc /scannow to make sure all system files are intact and unaltered. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McPeak, Harry D. Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 6:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: XP-SP2: loss of portion of video, time reset, AVG corrupted I've never had anything remotely close to this happen before. Here's the sequence as best I can recall. -cold boot, black screen w/ cursor showing, moving, etc.--no response to mouse or kybrd -warm reboot, Windows screen w/ C but then same black screen w/ cursor -warm reboot to Safe mode; black screen w/ text around edges, cursor moving -cold reboot to safe mode w/ networking; C page, blue welcome screen, black screen -cold reboot to safe w/ command prompt; C, blue welcome, Cmd window -ran chkdsk w/ no errors -cold reboot again, normal log in came up but also error message that my date, time were incorrect and needed to be reset -date was (I think) 1-1-1601, time 12:00 am -windows started and I reset time -also got an error message that one of the AVG files had been corrupted, so I uninstalled and reinstalled, updated, and reset options; ran w/o apparent problems -have rebooted many times since and everything seems to be running normally -apparently no data lost I may have missed a detail or two, but this is basically what happened. Any thoughts would be most welcome. This is very unsettling since nothing like this has happened, I don't understand what/why happened, I have no idea why "it" stopped, and no idea how to prevent recurrence. TIA, Harry -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
