Jollyjedi
2008-04-24, 22:41
My pc is about a year old, AMD Athlon dual core 2400 running windows xp pro 250gig hard drive, 1gb ram, nvidia geforce 6100 nforce400.
Just successfully come through my second attack of vundo. My first attack was sorted in these forums, but not long after my pc would turn off in the middle of a game, burning off discs etc. This started happening more and more often, so now all gaming has been banned! However, I can't now use my Nero burning programme or several larger applications. I can't back up my files, the computer just freezes. I can't even run S+D - it will get half way through and the computer turns off.
After running tests we found my hard drive has bad sectors, but I can't run chkdsk either to repair, so I've bought a brand new shiny one. Uuuuunfortunately, when trying to install windows, guess what happens!!!
So at the moment I have my failing drive (which is ok for most things), with a 250 spare drive. Tried to clone the drive over but that froze the pc too.
We've tried swapping memory sticks and taking one out etc, but that didn't help. Someone has suggested the bios might need flashing, this one is beyond me! Anyone have any ideas? thanks. Also, could the first vundo/virtumonde attack have damaged the bios or something else? If so I need help. Thanks
Just successfully come through my second attack of vundo. My first attack was sorted in these forums, but not long after my pc would turn off in the middle of a game, burning off discs etc. This started happening more and more often, so now all gaming has been banned! However, I can't now use my Nero burning programme or several larger applications. I can't back up my files, the computer just freezes. I can't even run S+D - it will get half way through and the computer turns off.
After running tests we found my hard drive has bad sectors, but I can't run chkdsk either to repair, so I've bought a brand new shiny one. Uuuuunfortunately, when trying to install windows, guess what happens!!!
So at the moment I have my failing drive (which is ok for most things), with a 250 spare drive. Tried to clone the drive over but that froze the pc too.
We've tried swapping memory sticks and taking one out etc, but that didn't help. Someone has suggested the bios might need flashing, this one is beyond me! Anyone have any ideas? thanks. Also, could the first vundo/virtumonde attack have damaged the bios or something else? If so I need help. Thanks