Re: Operating System Corrupt?

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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:44:41 GMT

You may have other hardware problems. Of course you need to be using a firewall,
updated virus protection that scans all email also, keep current with critical
updates at Windows Updates, scan for parasites at least weekly, use a complex user
passwords [never using the same password for online access that you use to logon to
the computer], and ideally implement minimum security settings for Internet Explorer
as described in the link below.

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

No I don't believe you have a "motherboard" virus. But I would suspect possibly the
following - bad hard drive cable, bad onboard controller [unlikely if you had this
happen on two motherboards], overheating cpu [clogged heatsink/bad fan], flaky ram,
or flaky power supply. I have seen a lot of strange problems resulting from bad ram
and bad or underpowered power supply. You might also want to run it in safe mode for
a while to see if the situation improves which would indicate a problem with a
startup program/service/driver and look in Event Viewer for any pertinent clues. ---
Steve

"Tommy Gun" <Tommy Gun@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D15554C-83C8-4B16-8693-22C3E7FE3C8B@microsoft.com...
> I have been through two motherboards and on my second hard drive. The latest
> symptom is a couple of days ago while booting up I received an error message
> that my harddrive was not located. Reset and it worked fine. A couple of
> days later no hard drive again. Attempted a number of approaches including
> completely reloading WIN2k. That worked, until I powered off and then
> powered back up, again, no hard drive. This time used win2k repair. First
> did a FIXBOOT. This worked. Again powering down and back up same result.
> Next time Fixboot didn't work. Did a fixboot and a fixmbr. Success again
> until p/dwn/up. Ran chkdsk from Win2k repair all look good although it did
> say there was an error. No msg though or diagnostic. Last time around and
> not powering off my system. Any thoughts that maybe a virus might be on my
> motherboard that scratches my boot directory? Noticed when this all started
> that when powering down on shutdown, Win2k was starting to take longer and
> longer. Internet game played when I started noticing was Unreal Tournament -
> Assault on Terror. There are some hackers in there. How do I protect the
> boot sector on shutdown for at time for that matter. Thanks.

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