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yaibal
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_ 		27. April 2007 @ 12:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey, im quite new here and i do not have that special skills in using computers. My pc is Dell Optiplex Gx-60 with Windows Professional XP SP2.

First of all.. I had a virus on my computer called DriveCleaner. I needed to boot to safe mode to use a program called smitfraudfix to remove it. I tried to boot and it loads SPTD.sys and then it just stays there and up in the left corner there is a mark like this _ flashing all the time but nothing happens. Same thing happens if i try to boot normally to windows. I tried using the windows install cd but it just stops to the part "Looking previous windows installitions" or something..

Im in a really sticky situation right now. Could anyone help? The problem is not with my video card, thats for sure.
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borhan9
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_ 		27. April 2007 @ 18:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You maybe at the time in looking at formating your computer clean and starting from scratch.
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yaibal
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_ 		27. April 2007 @ 23:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Look, it just crashes when i try to format with the windows cd
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borhan9
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_ 		27. April 2007 @ 23:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well then use a floppy and format your computer with a floppy boot disk. Then try boot from the CD again.
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yaibal
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_ 		27. April 2007 @ 23:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Bios is password protected and i have forgotten the password. i cant set up bios to boot from floppy
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borhan9
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_ 		28. April 2007 @ 00:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The only way to get around that is to remove the bios battery and leave it out for a day. Make sure when you take it out you make sure everything is turned off and everything is disconnected even from the power and case wires as in the keyboard and mouse connections etc...
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yaibal
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_ 		28. April 2007 @ 00:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Okay, i found the password jumper. i removed it and managed to setup floppy boot. I deleted the windows partition with fdisk. Then i managed to install windows again :)!
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borhan9
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_ 		28. April 2007 @ 01:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Kewl glad to see everything worked out in the end. :)
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_ 		28. April 2007 @ 03:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@yaibal: Glad things worked out.


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