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majeed 
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Posted: 29 August 2003 at 1:50pm |
Guys, quick question....
I have this computer, its running Win2k. I'm not sure if this a virus or something, but it was working fine for the last few months, but today.... it just keep restarting out of hte blue. Sometimes it doesnt even go into windows, during the Windows Start up phase it restarts.
Is this a virus, if so.. which virus could it be?
Even when I go into Safe Mode all the time, it restarts. What should I do?
Thanks in advance!!
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abhinav
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Posted: 29 August 2003 at 2:19pm |
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i had this problem last week. turned out that the ecsmp (or whatever you call it .. where the fan box is) it weared out .. replaced it with a new one and computer worked fine from then.
if that's not it, could be faulty RAM / RAM slot or motherboard
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Posted: 30 August 2003 at 2:35am |
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its the slammer virus. There are heaps of tools availble on the net to fix it.
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TYSON
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Posted: 30 August 2003 at 4:44am |
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Sounds like overheating to me.
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 30 August 2003 at 5:30am |
If you want to know if you have a virus istall some antivirus software and run a scan to see if it finds a virus.
I use pc-cillin from www.antivirus.com as I get over 30 viruses a day in emails and I find other software like macAfee and Norton use to let the odd one slip through. Been using PC-Cillin for 2 years now and never got a virus.
At the moment with this SOBIG virus I have had to shut all the .com emails addresses for this site as I am getting over 50 emails every 15 minutes containing this virus!! Luckly PC-Cillin is catching every one.
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Bunce
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Posted: 30 August 2003 at 5:58am |
 TYSON wrote:
Sounds like overheating to me. |
Have you been living on another planet ??  This and 2 other viruses have been running rampant the last week or so. Fastest spreading of all time.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html
It crashes the RPC service causing XP and Win2K to restart.
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Posted: 30 August 2003 at 7:00am |
Bunce wrote:
TYSON wrote:
Sounds like overheating to me. |
Have you been living on another planet ?? This and 2 other viruses have been running rampant the last week or so. Fastest spreading of all time.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html
It crashes the RPC service causing XP and Win2K to restart.
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this is another situation... msblast only restart after alarming due to the termination of the RPC service/server...
I think too this is a hardware one...
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Posted: 31 August 2003 at 3:36am |
Bunce wrote:
TYSON wrote:
Sounds like overheating to me. |
Have you been living on another planet ?? |
Of course i am, Same planet as you, Australia 
Anyway,from what i have seen msblast will only cause the infected pc to restart on infection. Where as a dead cpu fan, etc will cause restarts before it loads windows.
I'm interested in the outcome.
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