Power glitch?
Possibly.
Since I have seen everything up to have my C:\ scrambled from them.
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Power glitch?
Possibly.
Since I have seen everything up to have my C:\ scrambled from them.
You guys are funny :)
It never did act up last night. A couple of weird things though - everything in my bookmarks was gone, and it's taking a long time to shut down. In fact, I got the "program not responding" bs when I tried to shutdown.
Power glitch...we do have those, so maybe that's a part of it.
Who knows, guess it's a wait and see thing now.
Thanks for the help and suggestions. I am glad that green striped screen is gone. :)
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), also known as an Uninterruptible Power Source, Continuous Power Supply (CPS) or a battery backup.
Your next investment probably now.
Possiblely that the fan over the chipset.
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Thinking about what you said. Maybe it's possible that the Arctic Silver thermal paste hadn't spread evenly over the new northbridge cooler. Maybe once it was running for a bit it spread and the problem stopped. ( Sounds good anyway! ;) )
Next time I have to use Arctic Silver I'll use a credit card and spread the paste evenly.
Thanks :)
Ugh, lots going on now.
Kaspersky found trojan-dropper.win32.dpt on my computer. I deleted it as per instructions which removed an executable file from my desktop. I shut computer down for the night. Rebooted it in the morning, got a BSOD that said something like Checking file system or C, 1 disk needs to be checked for consistency...Checkdisk is verifying filesystem, Checkdisk is indexing...
then something about deleting and indexing entry $0 of file 25 ....
Eventually, windows loaded. I tried to run Kaspersky again...left for work and when I came back in the evening, it was only at 20%. :( I shut computer down.
This morning, I decided that I would start a hijackthislog. I got as far as running Adaware, Spybot, and AVG. After that, I was unable to use any of the virus scans listed since Internet Explorer (I use Firefox) would not work. I was unable to open them from Firefox's IE tab - in fact, I don't think that option was even there.
The next thing I know, I have a BSOD.
This is what it said:
I have shut the computer down again - had to use power button - and won't start it up again until I know the first step. Using my old Dell to type this.Quote:
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart PC. If it appears again follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware of software manufacturer for any windows updates you might need.
If problem continues, disable or remove any installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.
If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options and then select Safe Mode.
Technical Information
***STOP: 0X000000D1 (0XEC93D7ED, 0X00000002, 0X00000008, 0XEC93D7ED)
Beginning dump of physical memory.
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance.
Thanks for any help / suggestions.
The Stop 0xD1 messages indicates that the system attempted to access pageable memory using a kernel process IRQL that was too high. Drivers that have used improper addresses typically cause this error.
Did it list a driver or anything like that?
If it listed a driver, it did it before that screen if that's possible. I wasn't at the computer the entire time, so I don't know the answer...
I remember something in the first three scans about kernel something er ruther...but not enough to answer your question unfortunately. Wish I had taken better notes.
If you get it again, try sfc /scannow.
Grabbing straws with that.
I keep getting different BSOD error messages. Some have to do with drivers, some have to do with memory. My opinion, and I could be (and probably am) wrong is that the Trojan that's on it has screwed everything up. I've decided to grab files off of there, and reformat. If I have problems after that, I'll at least know it has to be hardware. I'm able to run it in Safe Mode, earlier today I was able to run it sort of normally.
I will of course run a virus scan on any files that come off of it, as well as a trojan scan.
A fresh install feels like the right thing to do. I don't know if that trojan could screw up my drivers or not, but I know it screwed up IE7.
The sfc /scannow brought back memories of my Old Computer Trying To Croak thread. Is that a last ditch effort to try to get computers to behave before they're toast? ;)
Thanks for all the help :)
In my experience different Stop errors are nearly always caused by memory problems. Try testing the RAM using these nice utilities:
Memtest86
Windows Memory Diagnostic
"I keep getting different BSOD error messages. Some have to do with drivers, some have to do with memory."
I agree with testing the ram,
Run one program in it all caomes out OK, then run the other one.
Glitches in the ram, if written back to the hdd, can and will cause what you are getting.
I don't know if I'll be able to run the tests or not since it's hell just to get it to boot up - I can do some things from safe mode though...can I run the tests from safemode? I think I should open the case up and reseat the memory 1st.
Guess it all depends on if I can run anything at all on it right now. :(
Thanks again :)