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Annoying and painful issue

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Okay every hour or so my computer will decide to lockup or just restart its self. Then when its restarting or i restart it. The windows boot screen just sits there loading forever not doing nothing and if I leave it long enough sometimes a brief blue screen appears which ive seen the main words for about a second and it said registry error. Im running a 2.0 Ghz Dual Core with 1 gb ram 450 W power supply NVIDA motherboard with a Geforce 512mb video card. I have 2 fans running so i know its not a temperature problem cause ive looked in BIOS and nothing in there is out of the ordinary. Please im in distress I need to get this computer stable and running. Just bought it a few months ago don’t want to actually get rid of it yet.

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Software..

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How long has this been happening? Have you made any recent changes, new software, new hardware? Do you have anti-virus and anti-spyware software installed and up-to-date? Is Windows up-to-date?

ummm

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well see thats the funny part it started to happen after I updated windows all the way. It happened after I installed SP2. No i can’t afford anti-virus or spyware. no hardware or software changes have been made besides the windows updates

Plenty of free stuff.

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I think you got a virus.

There are plenty of free applications out there to protect you from this stuff.

Try Avast: http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Then for anti-spyware try Spybot Search and Destroy:
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022-10122137.html?part=dl-spybot&subj=dl

You could also try doing a system restore prior to when you started noticing it happening.

Can’t afford not to…

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Hi,

The worst thing you can do is to connect to the internet without anti everything. Statistically you will have a 50% chance of being infected in 12 minutes after connecting!!!!

I expect that your computer is riddled with malware.

Good free anti software I strongly recommend

grisoft AVG – antivirus
spybot, search and destroy )
Adaware ) anti spyware
Zone alarm – firewall.

All these are free to download. Once you have downloaded and installed, run the updates then turn off System Restore and boot into safe mode. Run AVG, SPYBOT and ADAWARE. When they have cleaned your system reboot normally and turn on system restore.

Herb

Does it Really Take that Long?

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50% chance in 12 minutes?

I’d put it more like 100% chance in 6 minutes or less 🙂

Last figures I saw

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🙂

Herb

Power supply fault

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This sounds like an under powered power supply, 450 watts isn’t near big enough, 550 to 600 is more what you should have, and the additional fans won’t do anything but load the power supply even more.

Not necessarily….

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Your requirements for a power supply vary depending on many factors, including the number of drives/optical devices and the requirements of the video card.

Core 2 Duos don’t require as much power as some of the high end single core Pentium 4s. The OP doesn’t mention the video card, but many manufacturers overstate the requirements for the worst case scenario – loaded system with 2 HDs and 2 opticals.

450 watts is plenty for most users. Much depends on the quality of the PSU – a good name brand 450 PSU is more stable and runs cooler than a no name 550 – 600.

The load of a case fan is negligible compared to other components.

I’ve run a system with a 300 watt name brand PSU and a high end video card and not had a problem at all.

James

Mine is Only 300 Watt

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I have 2 hard drives, 2 optical drives, and a 128 MB video card. No problems here.

Well see..

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Its not my temp ran a few programs to check my temp and did some research on what it should be running my CPU is at 29 C. My GPU actually runs the hottest which is 45C and its a Geforce 7300 GS PCIE. I only have one harddrive. I don’t think its the power supply. And I didn’t have much spyware or adware. Spybot and Adaware and AVG only found a file called Not.A.Virus. Restart Tool something forgot the rest but yeah I know not to use IE. I use mozilla firefox. My brother is a computer whiz he doesn’t live me nor does he live in the same state. Hes the reason why I got another computer but seems like its going crazy on me. My HDD runs about 34 C so idk if thats a good thing or not. But later yesterday I got another blue screen and it said problem with a nvada.exe file………dumping memory and yeah my friend said he had the same problem but he doesn’t remeber how he fixed it so now im just sitting here ripping my hair out and losing sleep trying to find some way to fix this computer

Try…

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Run Process Explorer to see what that nvada.exe file is related to.

Once you know, you could uninstall/reinstall that program, update, patch, repair, etc.

try this…

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use System Restore, but if u can’t boot inside the OS, restart your pc, hit F8 key, then in boot menu, select “Last Good Known Configuration”, see if it will work..

yeah about System Restore

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If it is a virus…Won’t my system restore files be infected and id have to restart all over with the source again? Ive done the Last Good known configurate still stalls on the loading screen I mean some times it will just hang there for a hour until it decides to restart itself =/

Yes

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System Restore WILL restore a virus unless you can go far enough back in time (unlikely with System Restore).

Painful solution

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It maybe painful but after being on the Internet with an unprotected Windows computer …. You should just reinstall the OS, apply SP2 immediately (or slipstream it prior to install), install A/V, Anti-spyware, and firewall programs (www.comdo.com for free A/V and firewall)then goto Microsoft update and apply all the patches (or use an autopatch update previuosly downloaded)

There are some very intelligent people paid a lot of money to write programs to infect computers and, AND be as difficult as possible to remove (if not just downright impossible to remove)

Painful Solution turns into nightmare beyond my dreams…

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I reformatted my computer like instructed now when I start my computer up All I get is the Press DEL to enter SETUP, F11 to Enter Boot Menu screen and it freezes. Shows my procoess stating Main Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X 3800 in serious need of help what is wrong. I paid money for my computer and I do not need it to be messed up please help im only a 16 yr old who knows a good decent amount on how to fix computers but this is to far for me to handle.

Virus

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Go online, or buy mcafee scan. have it download into your computer and then it will scan looking for virus. I had problems like that, my printer didn’t work right so I went online and tried the trial mcafee scan it downloaded into my computer, scan and got rid of a Klez worm, and a stealth virus. Darn these people for making viruses I hope it backfires on them. into there systems
hope it helps I thought my printer was bad, my computer restarting. ugh

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