I am looking at a family friend's computer trying to get it to work for him. It is a bit older, the CPU is 933Mhz. There is Windows XP and Windows 2000 installed on the hard drive. When I boot XP the mouse and keyboard do not work, both are usb devices. This also happens when I boot into XP with safe mode. Either way when I boot 2000 I get the blue screen with some fatal exception. I figured he was having malware problems like most people I know seem to. I am not sure what to do at this point, either hook his hard drive up into my computer and try cleaning it like that or to reformat the hard drive. In this case he is going to have to get me his Windows disc/discs.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I have an infrared mouse in my storage unit that plugs into the Ps/2 slot.
__________________
Intel CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz, 1333FSB (Dual Core) 4096K
Intel Motherboards : ASUS P5K PLVM G31, 1333FSB,
GPU : 8800 GT OC 512 mb Ram Sound Cards : AC 97 3D Full Duplex sound card (onboard)
Network Cards : Ethernet network adapter (onboard)
Cases : Nikao Black Neon ATX Case w/ Temperature control, iEEE Power Supply : Corsair VX 550 Watt
RAM : 4GB RAM
Monitor : 19 inch widescreen Hanns-G
OS : XP Pro
First get a linux livecd. Use that to bootup the computer. If the mouse and keyboard work with Linux then you might have a malware/driver problem on windows.
If the mouse/keyboard don't work on Linux, then you might have a bad motherboard.
Daughter started the computer and its actually working with the mouseand keyboard now that it sat for a bit. Here is a hijack this log, it actually looks pretty clean to me. The computer only has 128Mb of RAM and a 933Mhz computer. Is there anything I can do here??? I spoke with the owner and he says it will turn off on him after a while. It crashed on me too after I left it on a while. I was getting a black screen with some lines on it.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 3:16:49 PM, on 4/15/2009
Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000)
Boot mode: Normal
lets be honest.. 128 is nowhere near enough for XP bloatware os XD
The crashing could be that small amount of ram is going bad too.. but sometimes taking it out.. rubbing it over with an eraser and mixing it up in different slots has an amazing effect.
Puppylinux for a machine with those specs.. will run fast and smooth..
I've advised him to upgrade to a new computer but in the mean time suggested either buying a 2nd stick of 128 or 2 sticks of 256 and reformatting with a fresh xp install.
I was trying to update my signature yesterday. I am not seeing where to do so under account settings or personal info. I actually copy and pasted the one below because it was more up to date.
