PC problems, I NEED HELP!!!

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:24 pm

my computer has been acting weird the past few days
-The HD sounds like it is going to explode
-It locks up randomly
-it is slow
-Some programs refuse to Run
-no desktop picture just a Error Message
-Connection speed regesters at 23 k even though i have high speed DSL
-i cant run Defragmentor or scan disc
-it wont shut down from thw start bar I have to cut the power

thats about it

what should i do
buy a new computer? what?

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:25 pm

uh plug the hard drive into another computer as slave to take all of your important files off and then format and reinstall windows? right your running windows sounds like a virus to me.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:35 pm

i dont have a computer available to do that Jack
my desktop

i think its a Trojan Horse
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/ ... helpme.bmp

i cant get it to appear on the post so i did a link but the picture is too small

Post by **bicostp** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:39 pm

I see you have AdAware installed. Make sure it's updated and run it in safe mode. Does all this stuff happen in Safe Mode?

Try running ScanDisk.

OK, from your description, your hard drive is failing. Buy a new drive, swap it out with your current one. Then run Windows Installer off of the CD on the NEW drive. After that's done, set up your old hard drive as a Slave drive, and copy all your stuff off of it.

Oh, and get AVG Antivirus.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:46 pm

i was looking to buy one but i dont have enough ram the lowest powered one needed 128mb Ram i only have 92mb Ram

Post by **bicostp** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:48 pm

could you post a bigger pic of your desktop?

Sounds like you'd be better off buying a new comp.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:16 pm

Sorry that is as big as they come unless some one photoshops the picture to be bigger and a moderator edits my post so that the pic shows in the actual post not a link

Post by **bicostp** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:21 pm

What? Pressing Print Screen only makes images that big?

You're running LimeWire, aren't you? Virus city, man. You need antivirus programs! STAT!

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:22 pm

i just installed your anti virus program and i rarely use lime wire and not for illigal purposes

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:30 pm

looks like i will have to buy a new HD and Ram and I have birthday money coming still and i was hoping to use that money to put a down-payment on a PSP (nothing goes my way)

Post by **bicostp** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:48 pm

Sorry, man.

Try going to a computer repair place (privately owned, a "mom and pop" store). I went to one in RI last month, and he gave me a 10GB drive and a copy of Win98SE.

(Maybe because I needed them for a school comp? or maybe because those parts aren't what people want? )

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:50 pm

can you get me the same deal IM DESPERATE

Post by **bicostp** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:53 pm

Sorry. (My folks don't want me to trade things.)

Maybe a place like CompUSA would have old repair scrap parts?

See if you can get your folks to buy a new HD for you. (It might work...)

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:54 pm

bicostp wrote:Sorry. (My folks don't want me to trade things.)

Maybe a place like CompUSA would have old repair scrap parts?

See if you can get your folks to buy a new HD for you. (It might work...)

and more Ram i need the RAM

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Mon May 30, 2005 5:01 pm

Do you have a CD burner or something else to back up your stuff onto? If you do, then you shouldn't need a new hard drive. Just copy all of your stuff that you don't want to lose onto it.
Then boot off an uninfected dos floppy and run fdisk /mbr to clean your boot record of any viruses. Then run fdisk and delete all partitions. Create a new partition and format it. Then install Windows. Then copy your stuff back onto the hard drive. Then be sure to install plenty of anti-virus and anti-spyware programs to prevent it from happening again.