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Super Bad Virus? Can't Even Reformat!
I think I have a virus but I've never seen anything like it. My screen has
flashing verticle lines and I can hardly see the screen. I used GoBack to try to revert the drive and it didn't help. I can't even get a boot disk to work because I can't see past the lines. I tried re-seating my video card. Nothing. What can I do? I can't even reformat the drive. Any ideas? -- Warmest regards, SJH |
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When you boot with a boot disk in, does the computer see the floppy and boot
from it? If so, I think you either have a video card or a monitor going bad. Try your monitor on a different machine and that monitor on yours. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "SJH" wrote in message . .. I think I have a virus but I've never seen anything like it. My screen has flashing verticle lines and I can hardly see the screen. I used GoBack to try to revert the drive and it didn't help. I can't even get a boot disk to work because I can't see past the lines. I tried re-seating my video card. Nothing. What can I do? I can't even reformat the drive. Any ideas? -- Warmest regards, SJH |
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On 23-Jan-2005, "Ron Badour" wrote: When you boot with a boot disk in, does the computer see the floppy and boot from it? If so, I think you either have a video card or a monitor going bad. Try your monitor on a different machine and that monitor on yours. I can't tell if it's booting from the floppy because of the all lines on the screen. As windows boots up the patterns change. Once windows loads my mouse turns into a one inch square. I can still connect to my files with Remote Administrator (similar to go-to-my-pc) but when I go into screen mode the screen in the viewer window looks just like the screen of the remote (bad) computer. -- Warmest regards, SJH All the best, Stephen Horrillo EXIT Realty Agents are Making Over 100% See how at: www.over100percent.com |
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When do the lines first appear, when turning on the PC during the bios
routine? "SJH" wrote in message . .. I think I have a virus but I've never seen anything like it. My screen has flashing verticle lines and I can hardly see the screen. I used GoBack to try to revert the drive and it didn't help. I can't even get a boot disk to work because I can't see past the lines. I tried re-seating my video card. Nothing. What can I do? I can't even reformat the drive. Any ideas? -- Warmest regards, SJH |
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You should be able to hear if the floppy drive is being accessed. If it is
not, it may be because the floppy drive is not set as the first boot device in the BIOS. If the screen is distorted from the very first moment after you power up, then I would say it is a hardware problem. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "SJH" wrote in message ... On 23-Jan-2005, "Ron Badour" wrote: When you boot with a boot disk in, does the computer see the floppy and boot from it? If so, I think you either have a video card or a monitor going bad. Try your monitor on a different machine and that monitor on yours. I can't tell if it's booting from the floppy because of the all lines on the screen. As windows boots up the patterns change. Once windows loads my mouse turns into a one inch square. I can still connect to my files with Remote Administrator (similar to go-to-my-pc) but when I go into screen mode the screen in the viewer window looks just like the screen of the remote (bad) computer. -- Warmest regards, SJH All the best, Stephen Horrillo EXIT Realty Agents are Making Over 100% See how at: www.over100percent.com |
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