-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Stymied here
- From: "Sr. Dorothy Robinson" <srdorothy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:39:30 -0700
Jo Ann,
Are you running an antivirus software? With Windows, that is something you
really can't do without. If you do have one, have you updated the
definitions lately (sometimes it's automatic) or run a scan? Results?
Sr. Dorothy
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:05 AM, bookworm54 tds.net <bookworm54@xxxxxxx>wrote:
> I have a computer I'm trying to work on without much luck. It's a Dell
> Dimension E521 desktop running XP media edition. Friends said they think it
> has a virus or worm as it keeps popping up virus messages. It has no PS2
> ports, only USB. The only drives it has are a hard drive and CD, which are
> both SATA drives. The CD is seen and recognized in the BIOs, but doesn't
> show in my computer. When you put a disk in it the light blinks for a
> while,
> then stops, doesn't read the disk. There are no IDE plugs on the mobo, and
> I
> don't have a SATA CD drive. How can I do anything with it? By the way, it
> boots and runs normally except for a disk seek error on startup which you
> can bypass by hitting F1. With no internet hooked up, it seems normal.
> Don't
> see any virus messages. Where to start?
> Jo Ann
>
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