Virus?
- From: no@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Newbie64)
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:47:35 GMT
I have a AMD K6-500MGHZ that has been running strong for the last few
years using windows 98 SE. It obviously has it's limitations but for
what my kids are using it for it's been running fine until recently.
It suddenly would only boot in safe mode for no apparent reason. I
reset the BIOS along with repeated attempts changing a variety of the
settings but in trying to reboot in 'normal' it would only 'hang' up
during the process. A step by step boot indicated a file
$SYS$AVI.vxd that was trying to load. I did some reading about it
and determined that this was a bad file that didn't need to be there.
Booted in safe mode and removed this file from the registry along
with the file aries.vxd. Performed a step by step reboot and the
file was no longer there and the reboot worked to a degree sans any
USB ports available. Rebooted and checked the BIOS settings again
only to find that in the PNP settings the USB ports were disabled. I
enabled them, saved the settings, and rebooted. Then it continually
asked for a 'boot disk' no matter what configuration I put in the
BIOS. Used the boot disk, performed scandisk, a lot of errors were
found in file names and directories which were fixed but now all I
can do when I reboot is a quick flash of the windows 98 screen
followed by the C:\ prompt. I looked in the directory but it looks
like all there is in the listing is 'directory001' through
"directory031" it doesn't look right but can't be sure. I don't
think I've done anything major but can't determine if there's some
sort of file that's missing on the boot that I need to put back in or
a setting that I've changed to make it miss windows. I was
convinced that there was a virus on this computer but was never able
to track it down because it just seemed that some of the settings
were changing on their own. When I performed scandisk the errors
that were found had odd characters within them (like smiley faces).
The hard drive is there and is recognized through FDISK and it boots
up as it always did but I'm left with the c-prompt. Any ideas or
thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
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