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| Undead Fred 2344th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Rid/Offline" , posted Tue 3 May 08:43
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My PC seems to be dead, it can run DOS, but as soon as you want to install Windows, protection errors start appearing, for no reason... maybe something wrong with the ram? I hope it's not the cpu or the bios :(
So I'll be offline, at least from AIM/MSN/ICQ, so the ones that tend to talk with me are advised.
Feel free to mail me at majoria_news at yahoo dot com for anything you want to say, or to send Majoria fanarts :3
Hmm... so you can't RUN Windows, or were you trying to re-install it? If you get on someone else's computer, you may run searches for your problem to try some solutions... My guess is that your HD is dying or you've got a virus? Who knows...
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| DarkZero 1221th Post
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| "Re(1):Rid/Offline" , posted Tue 3 May 11:42
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My PC seems to be dead, it can run DOS, but as soon as you want to install Windows, protection errors start appearing, for no reason... maybe something wrong with the ram? I hope it's not the cpu or the bios :(
So I'll be offline, at least from AIM/MSN/ICQ, so the ones that tend to talk with me are advised.
Feel free to mail me at majoria_news at yahoo dot com for anything you want to say, or to send Majoria fanarts :3
My advice would be to use a boot disk like Knoppix to try to move your files to either another hard drive or a few CDs/DVDs, then reinstall. If you can get past the BIOS, then your RAM is *probably* fine. And if you can run a boot disk, then it's definitely just a virus/spyware/corruption problem in Windows that would be fixed by a reinstall.
Hope to see you around again soon.
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| OmegaDog 1504th Post
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| "Re(2):bleh!" , posted Tue 3 May 11:55:
EDIT: Oy! DarkZero beat me to it! Aw well -- my experiences are below.
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If it's a failing HD, then Exodus' offer is pretty good... if it's a virus, you may have to wipe your HD and reinstall... I just hope you are able to back up the files you wanted to keep.
What happened with me was that I got bad sectors on some essential spot on my HD -- so every time I tried to load Windows, the thing would act like the HD was failing, and it'd just crash on me.
I had a friend download and burn a Knoppix CD for me -- and through it, I could read from my hard drive, the Internet (wired ethernet, not wireless), etc. etc. without problems.
Unfortunately, reinstalling Windows just couldn't be done -- on the install search for a previous version of windows, I kept hitting that bad part, such that it said that the hard drive was completely borked -- it said I'd need to reformat or even replace the hard drive before I could do anything with it.
Since, contrary to what the Win Install said, it seemed to work pretty well under Knoppix, I just used Knoppix until a friend could come over to copy over the contents of my HD -- and afterwards, with everything backed up, we could reformat and reinstall everything.
So, if DOS is at least working and you can access all the hard drive contents there, and you want a Windows-like atmosphere to access the net & such, you might see if a friend can download and burn Knoppix for you.
Knoppix English page
[Or does anyone recommend another Live linux CD distro?]
SO... IT'S FLITZ TIME EVERYBODY! | CCT: NEXT STAGE IS 21
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| Spoon 936th Post
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| "Re(3):bleh!" , posted Wed 4 May 12:38
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EDIT: Oy! DarkZero beat me to it! Aw well -- my experiences are below.
If it's a failing HD, then Exodus' offer is pretty good... if it's a virus, you may have to wipe your HD and reinstall... I just hope you are able to back up the files you wanted to keep.
What happened with me was that I got bad sectors on some essential spot on my HD -- so every time I tried to load Windows, the thing would act like the HD was failing, and it'd just crash on me.
I had a friend download and burn a Knoppix CD for me -- and through it, I could read from my hard drive, the Internet (wired ethernet, not wireless), etc. etc. without problems.
Unfortunately, reinstalling Windows just couldn't be done -- on the install search for a previous version of windows, I kept hitting that bad part, such that it said that the hard drive was completely borked -- it said I'd need to reformat or even replace the hard drive before I could do anything with it.
Since, contrary to what the Win Install said, it seemed to work pretty well under Knoppix, I just used Knoppix until a friend could come over to copy over the contents of my HD -- and afterwards, with everything backed up, we could reformat and reinstall everything.
So, if DOS is at least working and you can access all the hard drive contents there, and you want a Windows-like atmosphere to access the net & such, you might see if a friend can download and burn Knoppix for you.
Knoppix English page
[Or does anyone recommend another Live linux CD distro?]
Knoppix is really good, but if you plan on using it to virus scan, be aware of a few things:
Knoppix CANNOT write to NTFS drives/partitions.
If you have really huge partitions and/or files that muchly muchly exceed the amount of RAM you have, most virus scanners will screw up and force a system halt.
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| Makondo99 269th Post
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| "It's spreading!" , posted Fri 6 May 10:05
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Strange enough this exact same thing happen to me...
You won't believe this, but the same thing happened to me two days ago.
Windows ME started to complain about a corrupted entry in the registry? (registro de windows) and claimed that it would fix it after a reboot.
Sadly, it didn't.
Every time I logged into Windows, I had this message poping up and was prompted to reboot.
I tried booting in safe mode, but I wasn't able to load it.
I decided to perform a "format c:" and re-install the OS (I've done this several times) and almost when finishing the installation a message appeared complaining about "*.CAB files"
WTF?!
I tried re-installing the OS about 5 times with no luck.
I tried an older OS (Win 98 SE) and it installed without problems.
I don't like Win 98, so I tried upgrading to Win ME and even Win2k but I was given several reports about errors.
So I decided to stick with Win 98 for the time being, but when installing the programs I usually use I was given the fatal message again "problems with the register...reboot".
I was ready to send the computer flying out the room, but calmed down and asked for help.
I was told to try any possible faulty piece of hardware, starting from the RAMs. I tried one by one using an utility called Memtest. It claimed that one of my RAMs was bad.
I tried installing Win ME again, everything was OK 'till the last reboot, when nothing happened. The screen would show "loading Windows" then "Now it's safe to turn off your computer" T_T
So, I decided to perform a LLF I re-installed Win 98, with the purpose of saving my data from my other partition, but Nero showed error messages when trying to burn the CDs, so I wasn't able to save anything.
I read in the web that before trying a LLF you should try to fix the MBR . I used and old bootable disk and FDISK to do the following:
*delete the extended partition
*delete the primary partition
*reboot
*use FDISK/MBR
*reboot
*format c:
*Install
Win ME installed quickly and without problems. Then I used Partition Magic to created an extended partition. Then I format C: again, re-installed Win ME and installed my usual stuff. Everything so far is working fine, except for a little problem...
I can't install the drivers of my printer!
The scanner is working fine, the burner seems OK, I can connect to the Internet but I can't install some &/$%&#$"!!! drivers...
I guess I'll have some sleep an then I'll search the Internet for a solution.
Sorry for the long post, but perhaps some of the information here might be useful to someone.
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| Juan 4146th Post
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|  "Re(4):Rid/Offline" , posted Wed 11 May 07:06
You can also open the case and use a housefan to help the ventilation. It sounds ridiculous, but I had to do that when the motherboard fried in one of my systems and I had to use a dual processor (oven!) as a temporary replacement.
Dead computer + paper due = fun!
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If mischiefs happens again you could try checking the temperature of your hardware; if you still stick to your old pc (what was it?? something in the 400hz line if I do recall, right?) those things aren't supposed to heat so quickly. If the motherboard, the RAM, the processor or the Power source do heat up a lot in short time that could be causing problems (I lost a HDD once due to that), in that case you can keep the heat down by having less temperature on the room where the PC is stored (como dejar tu pc destapado con un ventilador al lado).
By the way, my pc takes something like 15 minutes to heat down when in problems; so sometimes when I'm using it for long periods of time I turn it off for 15 minutes or so and then get back to the work; it's really bothersome but it does the trick.
Did you try replacing your computer's fan(s)? It could still be that your computer's just overheating, but if your fans are really really old, then maybe they're not doing their job properly anymore? I don't know, just a thought...
STFU
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