any thoughts on what kind of an intermittent hardware error could cause this behavior? Whatever happened not only affected the time and AVG but also played havoc with the video.
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf 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 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. -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
