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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: slave on 6 April 2003, 21:56
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SO ya know... I thought I'd install Windows XP because I wanted to play Morrowind since it doesn't work on wine yet and all. Anyway, I was replying to a post here and suddenly the computer rebooted for no reason, and it's been doing this every 30 minutes or so ever since. I think I have a virus or something, I was usin' kazaa earlier. ERRGH. Now all my phoenix bookmarks are screwed up for some reason and I can't even add new ones.
SO MUCH FO' THAT LEGENDARY STABILITY
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I downloaded norton and scanned my hard drive, no viruses. I guess it's all windows's fault.
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Try the pc-cillin on-line scanner from Trend-Micro.
Back in the days when I was still using Windows it discovered a virus on my drive which Norton and McAffee did not find.
After searching for a while it seemed that both Norton and McAffee did not scan for polymorph virusses.
Since then they probably adapted this but it says enough about their scanners imo.
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I had the same problem...
Random reboots every couple of minutes followed by the mother of all corrupted boot.ini's...
Come to think of it I was using Kazaa just before that too...
Guess it serves me right for using such a virus weak OS and such a shoddy, spyware laden file share client. :D
edit : btw morrowind gets pretty dull after a while... even if you up the walk speed past "crawl."
[ April 06, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]
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OMG Windows sucks! Windows SUCKS!!!
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Heh, It's funny how Microsoft keeps saying how stable XP is but for some reason they have to hide the Blue Screen of Death by having it auto restart. :rolleyes:
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No, they like the bluescreen, but they can't even get that to show up LOL!
I actually had a program a few years back that let you customise loads of things in windows, including the bluescreen of death colour scheme, so mine was red with black text.
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The bit about XP rebooting all the time is common. I can't remember alot of details but there are some tweak programs that will fix it for you. TweakXP is free and really good:
http://www.totalidea.de/tweakxpdown.shtml (http://www.totalidea.de/tweakxpdown.shtml)
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Originally posted by devlkore:
No, they like the bluescreen, but they can't even get that to show up LOL!
I actually had a program a few years back that let you customise loads of things in windows, including the bluescreen of death colour scheme, so mine was red with black text.
ROFL, straight up?
I actually thought the BSOD was something M$ couldnt find in their source, a bug so to speak? Although M$ source is also another word for BUG. lolz
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Gee i have never heard anything about this "automated rebooting" before
So they just got rid of the bluescreen and made it reboot ?
Sounds about right.
Thanks Bill !
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No, it doesn't. You should see the Blue screen for roughly 1/4 of a second. Yes, it auto reboots after that.
It is possible that a core windows file has been corrupted, and therefore windows will fail and reboot.
By the way, try VMWare
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Originally posted by CaptainCool:
Heh, It's funny how Microsoft keeps saying how stable XP is but for some reason they have to hide the Blue Screen of Death by having it auto restart. :rolleyes:
the sad thing is that you're right. my computer will go blue for 1 second or so then reboot. i can just make out the words "memory error in" then a long hex number.