Has anyone had that BASTARD reboot virus?

[UnquietDad]

The one that makes your PC go off the second it turns on, just after the Windows screen comes on? It gets trapped in a loop of on-off. And how have you dealt with it?

I went into Safe mode and did a System Restore. In fact I had to do three SRs before I got one that worked. My computer is currently back in December. Happy Christmas.

I worry this may just have brushed the thing under the carpet. I've had it 3 times now.

I've got AntiVir & ZoneAlarm, so am well protected. Also ran Stinger this morning (in safe mode) which can pick up other nasties.

Any advice appreciated!

[GeekBoy]

Does it start at all in safemode or do you still get the mystery reboots?

Sounds like it could be hardware - checked your RAM?

[Carmenere]

I have something similar, can I ask you how do you start it in safe mode, is it F2 or F12 or something??

[GeekBoy]

F8, just after any bios messages have disappeared and before the screen goes completely black..

[UnquietDad]

Or sometimes it gives you the option to start in safe mode.

Yes, safe mode was OK so I was able to do a virus scan and the System Restore.

How do I check RAM?

[UnquietDad]

OK, so I've been told this could be either a conflict of hardware or imminent HD failure.

I've unchecked Automatic Restart in the system settings, so that if it is a conflict I should get a Blue Screen next time telling me what's wrong...

[ladytophamhatt]

yikes...i started getting ablue screen messgae thhing last night. sayong something about hardware failure but I haven't installed any new hardware....
does it mena my PC is about to die?

[Quadrophenia]

This happened to me approx two weeks ago, and my hard drive failed, fortunately i was able to get someone to retrieve all the pics etc, but it was fairly expensive.

[Iota]

we had the blue screen of death a couple of weeks ago and we do have a firewall and anti-virus stuff .

it took my lovely dh a couple of days to sort it all out and reconfigure everything and retrieve our data.

[GeekBoy]

To be honest OD, it could be imminent 'anything' failure.
Here is a memory tester though.

[EvelynsDad]

Don't pay for memtest86, it should be free, just download Ultimate Boot CD and run it from there.