From: Dr Sebby (drsebby@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 21:59:32 MDT
...wouldnt i at least see the blue screen of death if one of these
situations were the case? example; i turn the monitor on after the
computer...it goes 'green light' and then after a few seconds (presumably
waiting for some sort of output or signal from mr. computer) it just
switches over to the "orange light of waiting" for evermore. it really
seems as if nothing is coming out of the computer whatsoever. i put a
bootable cd in and still nothing. also, there isnt even a boot-up "BEEP"
that the machine makes...no sounds whatsoever...from the speakers or from
the internal computer tower speaker(the one that makes the beeps). i've
tried looking for a suicide note in and around the printer, but still
nothing. this is looking bad. real bad. =( a despondant sebby awaits
your reply.
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
----Original Message Follows----
From: "rhinoceros" <rhinoceros@freemail.gr>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re:virus: how many e-mails has the Sobig.F. worm released?
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:01:05 -0600
[Sebby] yes, thats the screen im talking about. "enter DELete to enter
setup" and all the rest.
<snip>
[Sebby] well, it seems i can hear the HD spin-up when i turn it on...and it
does try to read the cd drive....with continued spin(something it is
supposed to do). the floppy light however does not go on...whether i put a
disk in it or not. no beeps or sound...which is a bad thing i would assume.
there is no sign that behind the darkened screen, anything is happening
at all. i sort of thought i might have accidentally cooked the processor,
but why would that happen at night? the coolest time of day? and why would i
have seen that initial setup screen sitting there before i tried to reboot
it? would something still be visible onscreen of a computer whose processor
was fried??? thank you very much for your assistance in this dear Kalkor.
[rhinoceros]
The processor is not fried. It seems to be working and trying to run all the
startup procedures (trying to find a bootable disk or CD). It just happened
that the computer rebooted after a problem occured. Does it get into the
BIOS setup when you hit Del?
If it does, the problem is probably with your hard disk. The best case is if
the disk is intact but the BIOS does not recognize it any more. You can try
to fix that by getting into the BIOS setup by pressing Del and telling it to
identify the disk (if it is an LBA disk) or specifically giving it the disk
parameters from the manual (if it is not).
The second best case is if the computer can see the disk, but the disk is
not bootable any more because a system file was deleted or damaged. In this
case, you'll have to boot from a CD (or a floppy disk -- it depends on your
current BIOS setup settings) and then make the hard disk bootable again or
even reinstal your OS.
The worst case is if the hard disk actually crashed...
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