Very strange, computer starting itself.

[Train]

Sorry, been follow the flooding on the Chehalis and Cowlitz rivers. The flooding is effecting kin folk. Nothing bad so far.

Now to the BIOS.
On the advance tab, arrow down to Peripheral configuration and hit enter.

The onboard nic should be in there. As it says in the right pane, that will bring up the sub menu.

[Msbsgblue]

Thank you so much for your help tonight! You are a Godsend, you're the best!

Pat and Bill

[Train]

Now should you need a nic, get one that is not expensive.

Examples: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...nterface-Cards


I have used this one and it has never given be troubles.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833156107

Also. it might be a right good idea to get some canned air to clean the dust and junk out of the computer. Then 90+% alcohol with q-tips to clean the fan blades.

[Msbsgblue]

After we spoke to you last night I had a thought that perhaps Bill has a virus on the computer since the problem continues.

So, I went to his email box on my computer and to his SENT box and clicked on the last email he had sent out. IMMEDIATELY, Avira popped up an alert that a virus was attempting to access my computer so I DENIED it.

Could this turning itself on and off by itself be a new type virus? That is my guess since it is obvious he has a virus.

QUESTION: Is there anyway to run a virus check directly from the antivirus disk since he cannot keep his computer on long enough to run it?

[Train]

try McAfee stinger in Safe Mode.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

There is a nasty that does that, but it normally throws up a count down applet before shutting the pc down.

[Msbsgblue]

So far the computer will not stay on long enough to complete the scan.

Is there ANYWAY a person can run a scan from a disk with the computer shut down.

Darn thing keeps turning itself off.

I am terrified that I am going to have to wipe his hard drive and start over, I do not know how to format the hard drive.

I will have to be the one to do it. I am dreading this at best.

Any more ideas?

[Train]

Seems there are a few idea
http://www.claymania.com/virus-ntfs.html

I have used #5.

[fink]

Along the lines of the BartPE idea in Trains link you could use this boot cd..

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

and scan using its antivirus programs. You'd need to use something like Nero or this freebie to create a CD with the downloaded boot iso file...

http://isoburn.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

You would need to go into the stricken PC's bios and set it to boot from the optical (cd/dvd) drive first.

[Train]

As fink brought it up, I will post this link just incase.

How can I write (burn) ISO files to CD?

http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm

Thanks, I see it does have 3 AV programs in it.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/index.html

[Msbsgblue]

So much information and we are not sure what is wrong. We have worked and worked and now if you turn it on it pretty much turns right back off.

We'll try later to do some of this, right now I am really stressed by it and stress does not help my illness.

IT WOULD NOT STAY ON IN "SAFE MODE" either, just shuts itself down.

I did burn a CD on my computer of the McAfee Stinger, now is there anyway to run it to check for viruses on his computer when it won't stay turned on long enough?

[Train]

No there is not.

Will it stay up when he is in the BIOS?