Re: How do I know if this is a virus or an issue with my hardware?
From: boaz (nospam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/31/05
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:13:50 -0700
Unplug any USB device and try again.
"anubis" <anubis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
>
>
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