Re: Java Version 5 Update 9 Problem???

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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From: "Phyllis" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Following the advice I read about here on this newsgroup last night I
| updated my Java on my laptop to the latest update (9) and then this
morning
| was
| doing my monthly cleanup. Adware, Virus Scan, Spybot, CCleaner, ChkDsk,
| and Defrag. Anyway, during the checkdisk it got hung up and kept
starting
| over and wouldn't go ahead and boot XP. At one of the restarts of
| checkdisk, I hit escape, and it starting scrolling very fast something
about
| not enough space to do something with a bad sector, it wouldn't stop, so
I
| just turned it off at power button. When I turned it back on it started
the
| checkdisk again. I stopped it and turned it off again. I restarted in
safe
| mode, it went as far as the black screen with all the lines of text and
| hung. I finally got it restarted in safe mode and clicked on restart
with
| last good configuration. It booted without a problem. Needless to say,
I
| never did try to defrag. My question is could it have something to do
with
| the Java? That is the only thing that has changed on the computer, I
ended
| up uninstalling it entirely. Another question, what is Java used for
| anyway? Does a person really need it?
|
| I hope it is not my hard drive going belly up. I have only had this
laptop
| about 8 months. Compaq Presario, Windows XP SP2, AMD Turion 64, AVG
| anti-virus, Zone Alarms Firewall. I have a wireless router. I
apologize
| for the lengthy/wordy message. Any suggestions as to what the problem
might
| be?
|

Unrelated to Java. Perform the CHKDSK that Engel suggested.

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

This is probably not even the proper newsgroup to be posting all this,
except this is where I found the advice about updating Java if you had an
earlier version. Java came installed on both my desktop and my laptop. I
googled Java and read it, but I still don't understand any better than the
last time I read it exactly what it is used for. Oh well, I have
uninstalled it on this computer so doesn't matter.

I ran the CHKDSK /R as suggested. It ran through Chkdsk just as it did the
other morning and when it finished with the Chkdsk I got this blue screen
with a full page message, but it flashed so quick I couldn't read any of it.
It then went to the black screen with the option of safe mode, etc. I chose
last known good configuration and it finished booting. I shut it down and
then restarted and it restarted normally. Seems that there is something
corrupt with the boot up after running Chkdsk or something. I have never
experienced this problem before. Any ideas?

I went to HP website and ran all the hardware diagnostics and everything
tested OK.

Thanks for your help.



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