Re: How do I know if this is a virus or an issue with my hardware?

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:14:59 -0400

From: "anubis" <anubis@discussions.microsoft.com>

| My computer started to shut down on me with a blue screen with large font
| writing on it that was an error message of sorts - not typical error message
| at all - but it was 3 paragraphs of there was an issue and that it was
| shutting down to protect my files and then it shut off.
|
| At first I was able to restart my computer (HP Pavillion laptop running
| Windows XP) with it shutting off after a few minutes of being on it. One of
| the times it allowed me to boot up I tried to run McAfee virus scan on it,
| but it wouldn't run stateing that files were damaged/componants missing.
|
| Now when I turn my computer on Windows will not boot up at all. I am frozen
| at the "HP logo screen" with the "esc for boot order" and F2 and F12 options.
| It will occasionaly go to a blank black screen with a cursor flashing and
| freeze there, but never does it get past those screens into Windows. I tried
| to start in safe mode and it at one point let me on the safe mode options
| screen, but when I tried to chose safe mode it froze again. Now I can't get
| it to recognize the F8 key when trying to boot.
|
| Any suggestions of anything I can try now or do I need to break out the old
| recovery disk? Shop for another laptop? :-)
|
| Any diagnostic tests that I can run?
|

It sounds like the OS is corrupt. If you have Ghost. Create a Ghost image of the present
platform. Wiope it and reinstall the OS then restore your data from the Ghost image. If
you don't have Ghost and no backups made... well your data may be lost. 

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

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