Well, back in the summer i posted some about my laptop. its a inspiron 1000, in the summer i upgraded to 768 mb ram, and has a 2400 mhz proccesor. I have never gotten any serious virus on it, but i did have a problem with it before and all i had to do was do something with the video and it wasn't serious. But i run a teamspeak server for a clan, so if i turn it off the server goes off. so i tend to leave it on for extended periods. But, it doesn't matter as much to me i do the gaming on this desktop computer and i have music and everything else on my laptop next to me. So i leave it on while i'm gone for the weekend, and i come back and it is shut off. I find this strange so i turn it back on. Then it comes up saying that it was forced to shut off because of (a bunch of letters and numbers can't remember). I had seen this before, and didn't think anything of it. So i restarted it and again, the same thing happened. After around 5 times, it said something close to this on the screen: "Image (a bunch of letters and numbers can't remember).dll may contain a virus. The checksum does not add up to the computed checksum." So this made me think i got some kind of virus, and the only thing i had open was the teamspeak server. So right after that i restart it, and i got a black screen with white letters saying "Disk read error, press ctrl+Alt+delete to restart." and even if you do that, nothing happens. Can anyone help me with this and will i have to buy a new laptop? If i do i'll be slightly mad because all my songs, artwork, school stuff, and everything else is on it. Thanks for taking the time to read this and for responding if you do.
I dont' know how to help you but you should have backed up your stuff. I backup all my stuff at least once every week. Get in the habbit of doing it.
I realize that now, but not sure what to back it all up onto and how =s. if anyone could help it would be nice.
buy the blank discs and just click and drag what you want on the disc and then click "write these files on disc"
oh right got it thats easy. i would really like some help, i could delete the hard drive and everything but i really really really don't want to do that. someone please help me. I will donate to anyone who can solve this.
first off, have you began to backup everything? If not i would do that before going any further. Also run virus scans if you have any anti-virus programs.
But i can't even get onto the computer to run it, it stays right where it first loads up and says f2 to setup and like f whatever for boot options. but it won't let me use safe mode...
to the backup stuff, i thinks it's waste of discs if you backup your files every week just buy an external harddisk, it works pretty fine, just copy all your stuff on it, and you can even overwrite your stuff, which does not work on every disc, hm to your problem, i can't really help you :S sorry
well yea you have too...i got a problem like this and i uploaded all my things so then i can get them back but in your case you have to immediately clean disk
If I were in your shoes I would do this, especially if you want to save your data on your current hard drive: 1. Buy another hard drive or get a spare one. 2. Do a clean install of the OS on that replacement hard drive 3. Once you've installed the new OS and hard drive. I would install your old hard drive. 4. Run a virsu scan on that 2nd hard drive. 5. If it's clean then just use that as a 2nd drive. Or transfer the files to another HD or External HD. Just my 2 cents
if it be a virus on ye laptop, the quick cure be linux. but seriously its called a kernel panic and if your running windows XP your 38x more likely for that to occur than on a linux based machine. its faster and more secure and alot easier on your HDD.
When your checking for viruses try this, it works like a CHARM! http://www.prevx.com/ Its a Malware + Other Virus detector and its great. If you have a major virus, this will solve your problem.
