Super Bad Virus? Can't Even Reformat!

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SJH - 23 Jan 2005 19:47 GMT

I think I have a virus but I've never seen anything like it. My screen has
flashing verticle lines and I can hardly see the screen. I used GoBack to
try to revert the drive and it didn't help. I can't even get a boot disk to
work because I can't see past the lines. I tried re-seating my video card.
Nothing. What can I do? I can't even reformat the drive. Any ideas?

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Ron Badour - 23 Jan 2005 20:51 GMT

When you boot with a boot disk in, does the computer see the floppy and boot
from it? If so, I think you either have a video card or a monitor going
bad. Try your monitor on a different machine and that monitor on yours.

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>I think I have a virus but I've never seen anything like it. My screen has
> flashing verticle lines and I can hardly see the screen. I used GoBack to
> try to revert the drive and it didn't help. I can't even get a boot disk
> to
> work because I can't see past the lines. I tried re-seating my video card.
> Nothing. What can I do? I can't even reformat the drive. Any ideas?

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SJH - 24 Jan 2005 04:18 GMT

> When you boot with a boot disk in, does the computer see the floppy and
> boot
> from it? If so, I think you either have a video card or a monitor going
> bad. Try your monitor on a different machine and that monitor on yours.

I can't tell if it's booting from the floppy because of the all lines on the
screen. As windows boots up the patterns change. Once windows loads my mouse
turns into a one inch square. I can still connect to my files with Remote
Administrator (similar to go-to-my-pc) but when I go into screen mode the
screen in the viewer window looks just like the screen of the remote (bad)
computer.

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Ron Badour - 24 Jan 2005 17:18 GMT

You should be able to hear if the floppy drive is being accessed. If it is
not, it may be because the floppy drive is not set as the first boot device
in the BIOS. If the screen is distorted from the very first moment after
you power up, then I would say it is a hardware problem.

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>> When you boot with a boot disk in, does the computer see the floppy and
>> boot
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> screen in the viewer window looks just like the screen of the remote (bad)
> computer.

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Lil' Dave - 24 Jan 2005 10:56 GMT

When do the lines first appear, when turning on the PC during the bios
routine?

> I think I have a virus but I've never seen anything like it. My screen has
> flashing verticle lines and I can hardly see the screen. I used GoBack to
> try to revert the drive and it didn't help. I can't even get a boot disk to
> work because I can't see past the lines. I tried re-seating my video card.
> Nothing. What can I do? I can't even reformat the drive. Any ideas?

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