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[24hoursupport] Re: Big Problem, ANY Ideas Appreciated

From: "Douglas S. Oliver" <dsoliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 10 Mar 2003 12:52:16 -0800

 

This is just a thought; my old computer had a similar thing happen. I
couldn't do anything to bring it back, so I got a new computer and put
my old hard drive in it. I recently tried/am trying OnTrack System
suite, and it found a virus, which Norton AV missed somehow, that could
have caused that problem. My old computer is totally disassembled and
recycled, and I never really found out the cause of the problem. By
coincidence it all occurred when a number of folks on this list and
elsewhere were having a similar problem.I was thinking a virus with a
date trigger. Don't know if this applies here or is helpful, but there
you have it -- d
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 06:25, Ron Allen wrote:
>  
> 
> Both of my computers are now unable to boot.
> 
> Last week, the machine that is more or less my mother's 
> computer began stopping during/right after the POST and 
> would not respond.
> 
> Friday night, my computer had a black screen, the power 
> and HDD activity lights were on solid, and nothing could 
> bring it back up. I did a hard restart by powering down, 
> and it went back to the same state. I opened the box and 
> removed everything except the RAM and the video card, 
> still nothing. I jiggled wires and re-seated connectors, 
> and finally the machine booted. I started adding 
> components back one at a time until the box was again 
> loaded, and all seemed well. I figured I had a loose 
> connection, even though I never noticed anything during my 
> probing, that I fixed without realizing it.
> 
> Saturday morning, the black screen was back and now 
> nothing I do, including the complete strip and check, 
> brings it back.
> 
> It seems awfully coincidental to me that this sort of 
> thing should happen to both of my machines at the same 
> time. But I am behind a hardware firewall in the form of a 
> NetGear router, and both machines had ZoneAlarm,PC-Cillin 
> anti-virus, and Pest Patrol anti-trojan sofwtare installed 
> and operating.
> 
> I am totally dead in the water, and have no clue what 
> could have caused these problems or how to correct them. 
> If the machine will boot, I can usually figure out a fix 
> to whatever the problem is. If I can't even boot to DOS 
> using a floppy, I'm out of my depth.
> 
> Please, any and all suggestions appreciated. I can pick up 
> mail from work for awhile, but I can't spend a lot of time 
> responding.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron
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