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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: 1BAD4DR on October 21, 2009, 05:57:17 PM

Title: Virus claimed pc salvagable?
Post by: 1BAD4DR on October 21, 2009, 05:57:17 PM

Hi All

Looking for help with my parents old computer. They recently got a virus that I believe got into the MBR causing it to reboot over and over everytime it goes to load windows. I downloaded a trial of "partition recovery" and booted from a burned cd. I didnt realize that the program is completely useless unless you pay for it. Anyway, after i ran it, exited the program and it came up with the a:/ prompt. I shut it down and restarted it and now i've got no video to the monitor. (side note: I've been using my monitor, not the one typically hooked up to this) The processor is an Athlon 1.7 I believe and it has no onboard video output. It is running off of some ATI card. Is there anything that can be done? Or is it scrap?

Title: Re: Virus claimed pc salvagable?
Post by: JJ 3000 on October 21, 2009, 11:21:44 PM

Do you get any image on the screen at all? Is the CD still in the drive?

Title: Re: Virus claimed pc salvagable?
Post by: 1BAD4DR on October 22, 2009, 05:50:23 AM

No image or "signal". Cd is not in the drive

Title: Re: Virus claimed pc salvagable?
Post by: Spoiler on October 22, 2009, 06:31:36 AM

What OS are you running on this machine and do you have the CDs for it?

Title: Re: Virus claimed pc salvagable?
Post by: 1BAD4DR on October 22, 2009, 03:15:17 PM

Windows XP... Have some of the disk's Im sure. Something in particular your talking about?