Anyone good with computer problems?

Question

Ok heres the deal my dads computer has been acting wierd lately but today it totally crashed. he wont ask ?s cuz hes stubborn so i am. excuse my spelling & grammer. K well he thinks his hard drive is goin out could this cause all of what im bout to say? well he has mcaffe loaded on his computer and its been sayin parts are missing or damaged so he reloaded it but it wont load all the way then it freezes and he has 2 turn the computer off his self. Plus it says he aint got a internet connection which we kno he does cuz we have dsl & we have that idk what its called but he has the main 1 in his office & i have one just plugged into my computer & my internet works perfectly. O yeah & it keeps sayin script error whatever the heck that means. Hes pretty smart with computers i just think hes 2 stressed 2 think. I kno thats not a lot of info but if you have suggestions what it could be and how 2 fix it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks SO much!!!

Answer 1

It seems like your computer may have a serious virus that is slowly damaging your HD, my suggestion for remedy (and both ways always work) is either use an F-DISK or Use your system recovery CD, you can make an F-DISK yourself, just go on the net and search for it, use it wipe out your whole HD and reinstall everything, after the process is done (can take several hours ranging from 1 hr to 30 hrs depending on system configuration and software and hardware settings) your computer should be running like new again. In this case DONT backup your HD because a piece of the virus might make it in the HD.

Answer 2

Hi Cassie,

I'm sorry that I'm not a Windows PC expert. I use a Macintosh. It sounds like your Dad's computer could be having some hard drive problems, but it sounds to me like it might be not enough RAM or possibly just a very slow processor. Is it a very old computer? Things start slowing down or freezing and forcing him to re-boot could also be a computer virus.

It would be best to ask your Dad to take it in to have someone look at it. But, if he's a computer expert, he might be mad about that.

Whether the computer has Internet access is easy to figure out because it should have either a phone cord connected to it or a an Ethernet cable attached to it, which looks like an even larger phone cord. Your Dad might have that computer as a hand-me-down for you, which was replaced by his in the office.

Best of luck to you, Cassie.

--Rick

Answer 3

If computer will start from complete off mode and bring up windows hard drive it self is fine. Corrupt information is on it. When you add any program at all to your computer it creates a new folder and puts files in it it also adds a few files to the windows registery, this files tell windows how to communitcate with the new program. if u remove program and not these files windows still trys to access he program that is not missing. best thing to do in this case is turn on computer hold F10 (or whatever keys bring up your restore,sometimes ALT and F10) then restore computer to factory defaults, lose all saved files but u move on and save money

Answer 4

It really would be helpful for you to write your question in plain English so people who want to help can understand the problem. Disregard that comment if you really are still in third grade.

What parts are missing or damaged? Parts of McAfee or what??

Can you get onto the internet?

Give us a clue....

Answer 5

Mcaffe and norton are nothing but trouble, I went to walmart and bought a $19.95 CA antivirus and it's been working great for past two years.

Answer 6

If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
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Answer 7

i would suggest he just take the whole operating systemoff and just re installing it! sounds like you have a virus! or try to do a system restore!

Answer 8

Your computer is broken. Throw it away and get a new one.