MONKEY VERSUS ROBOT!

Gatsu

Shared on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 08:21
MONKEY HATE TECHNOLOGY! ROBOT HATES THE MONKEY! THEY WILL FIGHT ETERNALLY!

Sheesh....every day reveals a new problem with my computer. I've formatted it twice in the past 2 weeks.

Here's the breakdown.

I formatted & reinstalled windows.....got an ass of viruses before I could install AVG & Zone Alarm.
So ended up having to format & reinstall windows again. keep in mind this was a full format...wiping the HDD clean.

Reinstall windows....leave the ethernet unplugged. Reinstall all of my antivirus & firewall software off of a disc I burned on another machine.

Worked fine for a week. No virus...nothing.

Fast forward to today.

Firefox crashes continually. Figured out it was the shockwave plugin. Uninstalled it, reinstalled it. Rebooted...all that. Still crashing. So I reinstalled an older build of Firefox I knew worked. Still crashes. oooooook....a little annoyed. So I figure oh well...I'll watch a video. Start the video up...the screen goes all kinds of wonky and locks the system. Reboot.
Explorer, Live Messenger and the Task Manager all crashed within seconds of each other. Objectdock crashed as well.

So I boot into safe mode and scan, rescan and triple-scan with everything I've got. Nothing. Not a damn thing.

That is where I am with it right now.

If anyone's got any suggestions (other than buying a mac or installing Linux). I'd love to hear them.

OS: Windows XP Home SP2 (all latest updates)

Gatsu OUT!

Comments

Ima_Goob's picture
Submitted by Ima_Goob on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 07:45
I was going to offer my two bits and say that perhaps it is a problem in Hardware at this point. Your RAM sugestion is a possibliity. The fact that you had a complete refresh of your HD while off the grid then problems could only be hardware or in the OS install (disk error; HD bad sector issues). OS install issues usually rear their head during the install process though, same with sector issues.
Isstasi's picture
Submitted by Isstasi on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 08:36
Download a live cd of Ubuntu, boot into that and run all the hardware tests to make sure you dont have any physical errors, then get a stripped down version of xp (lots of good ones on the piratebay) preferable with the software you want preinstalled
Gatsu's picture
Submitted by Gatsu on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 08:41
No Linux man. I need my graphic design software and Ubuntu doesn't have what I need. My PC is my design machine.
kevtek17's picture
Submitted by kevtek17 on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 09:54
so it only crashes after the shockwave plugin?
Gatsu's picture
Submitted by Gatsu on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 09:57
no it crashes when I open up other programs as well now. Media Player, Firefox....
NotStyro's picture
Submitted by NotStyro on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 10:04
I think what Isstasi meant was to boot a live Ubunto CD to check the PC hardware for issues. Not to install Ubunto. Dunno if it possible, but I thought I had heard of booting a live unix CD and running a virus/rootkit scanner on the HD/Windows install. You may want to try a google search for 'livecd virus scan' and do some research...
NotStyro's picture
Submitted by NotStyro on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 10:05
...well, if you have access to another PC...
Gatsu's picture
Submitted by Gatsu on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 12:58
I think its possibly a RAM problem. I'll have to take some of my RAM out and see if the situation improves. if not...I'll give the scanning a try

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