Hi,
Got a problem and can’t figure out the cause.
Long story, but here’s the shorten version :-
a) Friday am – used desktop PC – was fine
b) Friday pm – used same machine – but problem. Was booting up, but LCD screen (via DVI/OUT on video card), was blank. Not even the BIOS and counting of RAM. Despite this WinXp loaded ‘cos I heard through speakers, sounds from eg, MSN Messenger logging on.
c) Was it LCD monitor? Connected a laptop via VGA to monitor – it worked – so monitor is working.
d) Thought it was then a video card problem – so removed video card, and connected via VGA, and VGA out on motherboard, to monitor.
e) Machine booted up and LCD showed.
f) Then SuperAntiSpyware (SAS) kicked in and worryingly showed 10 traces of adware.vundo/variant. Spent all night trying to remove this but to no avail. Each time machine rebooted, SAS detected the same spyware.
g) I traced it down to a directory in Documents and Settingt/user/Temp folder. However, not able to delete all folders as in-use. I found on every reboot, a new folder is created in that directory. ie whatever I can delete, after reboot, another directory is created.
h) Looked at msconfig – nothing on startup looks extraordinary.
i) also tried VundoFix from http://vundofix.atribune.org/. Doesn’t detect anything
j) Decided to remove HDD, and restore a Norton Ghost image of the C: drive of 3 mths ago in the hope this would provide quickest solution to all problems.
k) After restore though, same problem – whether via video card or onboard VGA out, monitor is blank. As before, no BIOS, no counting of RAM but sounds appear from MSN Messenger logging on.
Does anyone know what the problem is (and solution)? Has the spyware been eradicated? The m/board must be OK as the system is booting up and logging into MSN messenger.
There just seems to be no signal at all feeding into the monitors whether from the onboard VGA out, or via a separate video card.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in anticipation.