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normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:58 pm

Just checking since it seems that there is a lack of input response. So does the “Press any key to boot CD” come up at all? If not & if a BIOS reset doesn't do the trick I'm lost on this one.

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:53 pm

No that doesn't even come up. Its so weird. And I just had another one to do this after work just now. The deal with the shortcuts I mean. god I dont know what is going on but I'm about to pull my hair out with this crap. You remove the malware then your pc still screwed up. I wonder if they are morphing into something that causes more problems if it gets deleted somehow?

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:02 pm

I think that SuperAntiSpyWare has a tab called REPAIR if you click on the Preference button. You can try that and see if it works.

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:20 pm

Lol well I would..but nothing will open lol. Im telling ya its aggravating as hell

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:49 pm

Oh yes, believe me. Removing spyware can totally leave a system in swiss cheese mode. Some spyware so totally takes over parts of windows that it's almost not windows anymore. Thus, I've been reinstalling windows quite frequently lately.

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:54 pm

Ok so Im throwing in the towel on this one. Ive tried 3 different cd roms, 2 different cables, both ide ports, and even hooked up a different hard drive and it makes no difference. I reset the cmos, checked and double checked connections, everything i know to do and it will not boot to a cd for anything. You cant run the disk in windows because no exe's will work. W T F!! But its a old machine running a P3 1ghz cpu. Looks like it may be time to get this guy a new one. I'm all out of ideas and frustration has gotten the best of me.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:14 pm

Did you ever try it with the hard drive all drives but the CD-ROM disconnected? Also, try putting the hard drive on the Secondary IDE & the CD-ROM on the primary. The BIOS just may be that stupid (believe me, I've run into those kind, especially from that era).

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:51 pm

Yep tried that as well

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:29 pm

Wow, that's pretty bad. I'm guessing this is actually a hardware failure that was a bit progressive. I've actually run into this. Started out troubleshooting a computer that had suspected virus & ended up slowly working it's way to only booting every other time & not getting past the initial boot screen. It ended up being the motherboard (couldn't tell if it was the caps, but it was of that era).