Re: virus or not?
From: Clive (anomynous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/08/05
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:27:47 +0100
Kelvin,
I don't know if this will help but thought I would put my sixpenny's worth
in.
I have a laptop and a desktop plus a powered USB2 hub, which I transfer
from one computer to the other.
When connected to the laptop and one or two accessories (powered up)
connected to the hub, the laptop never reaches the Windows Logo and keeps
restarting. Powering down the accessories resolves the problem. Now the
desktop does not appear to be affected with the same problem when hub is
connected with powered-up accessories.
"Kelvin" <Kelvin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F855E45B-5074-4233-92AB-9A16FBE2F12A@microsoft.com...
> My name is Kelvin Harris and I own and run a small internet café and
> computer
> repair shop. Amek Computing & Training Ltd. Wednesbury, West Midlands. UK.
> Over the last 3 days I have had 3 computers to repair all following the
> same
> theme. My customers all report that when the XP logo appears their machine
> restarts. They will not start in safe mode, nor last good. Fat32 or ntfs
> formatting halts at around 13%. After low level formatting the HDD becomes
> unuseable? And subsequent boots report Primary Hard Drive failure. I have
> even tried connecting the HDD to my own system has a slave but again 13%
> seems to be the magical figure. I have tried various HDD drive repair
> programmes inc Maxblast and powermax. Thinking a resident virus may exist
> I
> have cleared the cosmos/bios and tried again! My question is? Is their any
> virus out there that displays these characteristics. During this 3 day
> period
> 2 other computers have been repaired showing no sign of this problem,
> making
> me think it is an external problem to the shop, although I cannot totally
> rule this out. I have had another computer in for repair showing similar
> symptoms. Another common theme seems to be the use of ebay.
>
> I hope you can advise
>
> My e-mail is k.harris@blueyonder.co.uk
>
> Thank you for your time and assistance
>
> Kelvin
>
> --
> KLH
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