Shaolin
08-27-2003, 12:32 AM
hello, a buddy just called about 30 minutes ago asking me what to do, long story short, I told him I've never ran into this problem before, and it's a good chance that it's a virus.. anyways, I told him to cliff note the problem and alternatives to me, and here it is.
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Computer A works fine but monitor is acting weird on 08/25/03.
Morning of 08/26/03 computer A won’t boot. Error “press shift F4 for setup”
Determine that onboard videocard is damaged on Computer A and proceed to purchase new mother board w/o video. Install this K7S5A and a simple PC133 videocard and monitor issue is fixed but computer A still won’t boot. Try to reinstall Win 2000 pro and findout that HD has damaged clusters/chains.
Here’s where it gets weird.
Decided to install HD from computer A to Computer B which is working perfect at 10:00pm 08/26/03. Comp. B has 2 HD’s one for win 2000pro and 1 for data. Connect HD from computer A to Computer B at ribbon cable for cd rom drive. Computer B boots but will not recognize added HD. Attempt to adjust CMOS to detect all HD’s and restart. Still nothing. Now computer B won’t detect any HD’s, its own or the added from computer A.
Disconnect HD from comp. A and the problem persists. Comp B will no longer detect its own hard drives. Again attempt to adjust CMOS to detect, no success. Proceed to remove jumper at mother board on Computer B to reset CMOS, again no HD detection on reboot.
So the addition of the HD from computer A results in the detection errors on computer B after it has been connected for a moment. Does this sound like a Boot Sector virus or something else?
Options available:
1. Formatting HD’s on computer B if dire need exists.
2. Formatting HD on computer A only after data has been recovered.
3. Returning hard drive from Computer B and getting new one as this is 6 mos. Old.
4. Figuring out a real alternative which actually fixes the problem.
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any ideas?
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Computer A works fine but monitor is acting weird on 08/25/03.
Morning of 08/26/03 computer A won’t boot. Error “press shift F4 for setup”
Determine that onboard videocard is damaged on Computer A and proceed to purchase new mother board w/o video. Install this K7S5A and a simple PC133 videocard and monitor issue is fixed but computer A still won’t boot. Try to reinstall Win 2000 pro and findout that HD has damaged clusters/chains.
Here’s where it gets weird.
Decided to install HD from computer A to Computer B which is working perfect at 10:00pm 08/26/03. Comp. B has 2 HD’s one for win 2000pro and 1 for data. Connect HD from computer A to Computer B at ribbon cable for cd rom drive. Computer B boots but will not recognize added HD. Attempt to adjust CMOS to detect all HD’s and restart. Still nothing. Now computer B won’t detect any HD’s, its own or the added from computer A.
Disconnect HD from comp. A and the problem persists. Comp B will no longer detect its own hard drives. Again attempt to adjust CMOS to detect, no success. Proceed to remove jumper at mother board on Computer B to reset CMOS, again no HD detection on reboot.
So the addition of the HD from computer A results in the detection errors on computer B after it has been connected for a moment. Does this sound like a Boot Sector virus or something else?
Options available:
1. Formatting HD’s on computer B if dire need exists.
2. Formatting HD on computer A only after data has been recovered.
3. Returning hard drive from Computer B and getting new one as this is 6 mos. Old.
4. Figuring out a real alternative which actually fixes the problem.
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any ideas?