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Randy Stankey
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Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-27-2009 10:59 PM
I'm with Bobby. It's either a virus, a crunched OS or, likely, a little of both.
As much as there are programs that promise to remove viruses and repair crunched systems, you can never be sure your system is 100% unless you erase and reinstall from scratch.
Like Bobby says, extract all your "stuff" from the HD, either by booting from the system "rescue" disk or by removing the drive and attaching it to another machine. Copy all your stuff to another computer or an external drive. Wipe and reinstall.
Yes, it's a pain in the ass. Yes, you might be able to nurse the computer back to health without going through all that. But, if you don't, you are essentially sitting on a ticking time bomb, waiting for something to go wrong again.
Take the time to do a thorough job and you will be able to breathe easier knowing your computer runs the way you expect it to with no surprises.
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Richard May
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1057
From: Floral Park, NY USA
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 05-04-2009 09:30 AM
Okay so this is what happened.......I boot from Antivirus CD after trying all other suggestions from here and elswhere. It starts to run but the screen looks really weird (strange colors and a bit distorted). It runs through and finds no viruses. So I say "shit", it must be the hard drive crapped out or something. I try to boot from Window XP cd again, but it totally freezes this time. I take the cd out, pull out the plug, plug it back in again, start it up and here we go again. I get to the "Windows did not start successfully.......blah, blah, blah,,,," so I say fuck it, go inside and eat dinner. I come back after dinner and notice that my screensaver is up. I touch the mouse and everything is back to normal. First thing I do is back everything up that I need. I then shut down the computer and restart it. Everything is working fine and nothing was lost or damaged. I have no idea what the hell happened...........Thanks for everyone's help.
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