Damn my Pc
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- pablito
I came home yesterday and turn on my pc and surprise, the stupid thing began an infinite loop of reboting itself.
It turned on, loaded evertyhing it loads when it starts up and after ~ 2 minutes it reboots it self, and keeps doing every time it reboots itself.
WTF.
I even put in safe mode, then i did not happen in 2 minutes, but as soon as i tried to open an application it rebooted.
I could not check for viruses or disk integrity because the time i have before it restarts is too short.
Is like when the worm that affected computers last year in which the computer restarted after getting a message about a service ( i think remote procedure call ) and it said it was shooting down in like a minute. The difference this time is that i get no warning.
Any ideas ?
- mrdobolina0
xp? do a system retore to the day before you started having problems? If not I dunno.
- Anarchitect0
'congratulation', you're pc was attacked by the most obnoxious virus of the year.
- benfal990
its a virus. can't remember the name...
that virus first appear at the beggining of 2004 if i remember well
- pablito0
i upgraded to sp2 more than 2 months ago, so i dont think is related to that. Besides the day before this happen it was working fine.
About the virus i doubt it, because i dont get any message, i was just saying that it rebooted in the same amount of time but there's no warning or message like the one u get woth the Blaster virus, whihc by the way i got last year and i have the patch for it so i dont think it has to do with it.
- winter0
yeah sounds like msblaster; you must check on microsoft site for this patch:
WindowsXP-KB823980-x86-ENU or a + recent version of it.
- winter0
yeah sounds like msblaster; you must check on microsoft site for this patch:
WindowsXP-KB823980-x86-ENU or a + recent version of it.
- pablito0
its not the blaster virus, i have the patch and the way it rebooted the computer was different. Besides it posted a warning. Now i get no warning.
It may even be a hardware problem.
- danthon0
check your power supply
- radiculture0
FDISK :(
- ribit0
Can you start from an install CD now with latest Windows versions?
Or start from another drive if you prepared ahead of time... :)
- mrdobolina0
tried the system restore thing I mentioned a few posts up?
- danthon0
you can boot from another hardrive with installed OS if you reset the jumpers. Make the new one the master and the old one the slave. Check your power supply box first though. It could be as simple as replacing that.
- warheros0
hey, had this same problem it seems a year or two ago.
my problem was that the new 256MB RAM card i bought went and crashed. once i removed it everything operated normally. so, did you put new RAM in your computer that the manufacturer didnt? could be your problem.
- danthon0
Yeah, usually your bios will give off some kind of warning beep if it has mempry probs.
Here's some beep codes:
Award and Phoenix BIOS:
1 short beep: Normal
2 short beeps: CMOS error
1 long and 1 short beep: DRAM error
1 long and 2 short beeps: Video card error
1 long and 3 short beeps: Keyboard error
1 long and 9 short beeps: ROM error
Long continuous beeps: DRAM not installed correctly
Short continuous beeps: Bad power supplyAMI BIOS:
1 short beep: DRAM flash error
2 short beeps: DRAM ECC check error
3 short beeps: DRAM detect error
5 short beeps: CPU error
6 short beeps: Keyboard error
8 short beeps: Video card error
9 short beeps: ROM error
1 long and 3 short beeps: Bad DRAM
1 long and 8 short beeps: Video card error
- warheros0
i always wondered what that damn beep meant...
- pablito0
yeah i bought new ram like 2 months ago, i'll try removing it to see if it works without it; i'll also check my bios.