Am fixing a friends computer, lots of winoldap errors were coming up nothing I did would fix it. So I wiped the hard drive and began with a new fresh version. It crashed so bad after I restarted when all was loaded on and working that all it would do was restart over and over, so wiped it again and put fresh version and after a restart winoldap would come on, isn't a virus cos no virus can withstand fdisk delete partition command, so what do you think during one of the times I reloaded I got blue screen of death. Is it the end for the motherboard?
2006-09-04 16:49:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
how much memory does it have try replacing the memory or taking out a stick might have a bad memory stick in it
2006-09-04 16:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by cherokee.diamond 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Trow away that pc and get a mac, you wont have any trouble with a mac"
Right, because mac computers make up about 5% of the market only about 50% of the software available for windows is compatibly with it. Plus hackers typically hate Bill Gates. Oh and who wants to make a virus that will only affect 5% of the computer using population. Just because people don't bother to make nasty malicious programs for macs doesnt necessarily mean they are a better system. Although im not saying im a bill gates fan boy but.. yeah.
ANYWAY! Sorry about that rant. Well the level 5 poster is certainly right, it could be a boot sector virus, and that would definitely suck because i actually dont know how to get rid of one. Never seen one either.
In my experience.. when a motherboard goes, it simply goes and nothing will work on the computer.. never had a "half assed motherboard that partially worked", it was just BAM, dead. The only real way to tell would be to take the hard drive out and try installing an OS on it in another computer. If it accepts the OS fine and works you will know 2 things: it is not the hard drive nor is it a virus in the boot sector. If it DOESNT then either the hard drive is shot, or you have an extremely nasty virus. I have seen many hard drives that will do partial OS loads, or will load the OS but not boot later.. and its usually that some, all, or enough of the hard drive is messed up that it is no longer functional enough to be run.
Trial and error, test the pieces. Oh it could also be that something is incompatible hardware wise too.. Good Luck
2006-09-05 00:24:36 · answer #2 · answered by k_butler2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's either got a power supply that's going bad, or a boot sector virus. Yes, they make MANY viruses that can withstand a partition deletion, and they are called boot sector viruses.
2006-09-05 00:00:26 · answer #3 · answered by alchemist_n_tx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trow away that PC and get a Mac
You won't have problems with a Mac.
2006-09-05 00:01:12 · answer #4 · answered by Christian M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋