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thanks for your help in advance.
i am running winxp, 1 gig amd, 512 ram, two hard drives, a cdrw secondary
master, and a cdrom secondary slave. a machine i built myself.
i don't know if this is all related to one issue or if they are three
seperate issues.
three or four weeks ago the machine in the livingroom (i have a small
network, one machine that only i use, one machine that the rest of the family
uses) started booting really slow, would come up to the desktop, an incident
of windows explorer would open to c:\windows\system32\svchcs.exe, then ca's
eztrust anitvirus would open identifying that file as infected with
win32/wowpa.v. somtimes the windows explorer opens to c:\program files\common
with two files "rights.001 and rights.002" in it. i ran a couple of fixes
for wowpa.v but eztrust still finds it when booting (in a couple of other
locations) and the windows explorer opens to c:\program files\common but is
empty. then you can just close the incidents of windows explorer and
eztrust, use the computer (a bit slugish) as usual.
i couldn't get back to it for a bit and the machine started a second thing.
after booting, after closing the incidents of windows explorer and eztrust,
the machine would occasionally reboot itself (no matter what was being done
with it or if it was just sitting). when it reboots on it's own it comes up
with what on first glance looks like the usual boot diaolog but isn't really
the usual diaolog. it does not dectect the primary master. i have two hard
drives, one is a 120 gig primary master and one is a 80 gig primary slave.
at the bottom of the screen, in red, is the following statement; "IDE Drives
installation error: for best reliability and performance, please change the
stand alone slave drive to master. system halt". at this point if i do a
ctrl/alt/del it reboots directly to that statement screen. also, if i
ctrl/alt/del and go into the bios at this point the bios does not detect the
primary master. but, if i do a hard off and on (using the power button) the
machine would do a reasonably normal but slugish boot to the desktop where
the windows explorer opens, eztrust opens, can close them and use the machine
without it rebooting itself. that is where things were at, at least till
yesterday when the following started.
of course through all this everyone in the family says "i didn't do anything".
now when the machine is started it seems to do a normal boot process until
it is time to load windows then i get, after the boot diaolog, a black screen
with white lettering that says "windows could not start because the following
file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>\system32\hal.dll please
re-install a copy of the above file."
an infection of windows? an infection of the bios? bad hard drive? thanks
for your help. Chris
i am running winxp, 1 gig amd, 512 ram, two hard drives, a cdrw secondary
master, and a cdrom secondary slave. a machine i built myself.
i don't know if this is all related to one issue or if they are three
seperate issues.
three or four weeks ago the machine in the livingroom (i have a small
network, one machine that only i use, one machine that the rest of the family
uses) started booting really slow, would come up to the desktop, an incident
of windows explorer would open to c:\windows\system32\svchcs.exe, then ca's
eztrust anitvirus would open identifying that file as infected with
win32/wowpa.v. somtimes the windows explorer opens to c:\program files\common
with two files "rights.001 and rights.002" in it. i ran a couple of fixes
for wowpa.v but eztrust still finds it when booting (in a couple of other
locations) and the windows explorer opens to c:\program files\common but is
empty. then you can just close the incidents of windows explorer and
eztrust, use the computer (a bit slugish) as usual.
i couldn't get back to it for a bit and the machine started a second thing.
after booting, after closing the incidents of windows explorer and eztrust,
the machine would occasionally reboot itself (no matter what was being done
with it or if it was just sitting). when it reboots on it's own it comes up
with what on first glance looks like the usual boot diaolog but isn't really
the usual diaolog. it does not dectect the primary master. i have two hard
drives, one is a 120 gig primary master and one is a 80 gig primary slave.
at the bottom of the screen, in red, is the following statement; "IDE Drives
installation error: for best reliability and performance, please change the
stand alone slave drive to master. system halt". at this point if i do a
ctrl/alt/del it reboots directly to that statement screen. also, if i
ctrl/alt/del and go into the bios at this point the bios does not detect the
primary master. but, if i do a hard off and on (using the power button) the
machine would do a reasonably normal but slugish boot to the desktop where
the windows explorer opens, eztrust opens, can close them and use the machine
without it rebooting itself. that is where things were at, at least till
yesterday when the following started.
of course through all this everyone in the family says "i didn't do anything".
now when the machine is started it seems to do a normal boot process until
it is time to load windows then i get, after the boot diaolog, a black screen
with white lettering that says "windows could not start because the following
file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>\system32\hal.dll please
re-install a copy of the above file."
an infection of windows? an infection of the bios? bad hard drive? thanks
for your help. Chris