[nick1346]

Hi,

Had a bad few days with my pc. It started with random crashes and boot up problems. I first did a virus scan and cleaned out with c clean. No good. So I took the back off and found that the power supply to hard drive was loose, firmly reattached the random crashes stopped all well and good...

That was until I tried to run my video editing software, it started to load correctly then would crash part way through. I re enstalled it, no good. I downloaded the latest patch, no good. Removed it and re enstalled again, same problem. Tried to do a system restore, no good. Then ie went wonky. Netscape browser works ok but not great. I de fragged the hardrive and have tried reloading windows, all no good. Just about everything else is running fine, apart from it keeps asking me to install a fax disc!?!

Now my question is, is it best to back up, format and start again or am I better off doing something else?

I'm running xp sp2.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers

Nick

[pete21]

id re install..sounds to me that windows has been currupted somewere along the line or could do a repaire use ur xp disks and look for a repaire :)

[evilfantasy]

You can try running this to ensure everything is up to date.

Just click on the scan now button.
Secuna Software Inspector
* Detects insecure versions of applications installed
* Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied
* Assists you in updating your system and applications
* Runs through your browser. No installation or download is required.

The Secunia Software Inspector covers:
* Internet browsers
* Internet browser plugins
* Instant messaging clients
* Email clients
* Media players
* Operating systems

[nick1346]

Originally Posted by evilfantasy

You can try running this to ensure everything is up to date.

Just click on the scan now button.
Secuna Software Inspector
* Detects insecure versions of applications installed
* Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied
* Assists you in updating your system and applications
* Runs through your browser. No installation or download is required.

The Secunia Software Inspector covers:
* Internet browsers
* Internet browser plugins
* Instant messaging clients
* Email clients
* Media players
* Operating systems

Thanks! I've got a long list offf it so I'd better get cracking. Interestingly I got a few come up for my laptop and I thought I kept things up to date so I'll regulary use this now, result! I'll let you know what happens.

[corpsey]

Lol get your Windows XP cd Boot from CD and wait to go recovery console once thats done (This should run from DOS mode) , type in CHKDSK if it says there no error's type CHKDSK /P that will force it to scan and it should fix your problem.

[nick1346]

Originally Posted by corpsey

Lol get your Windows XP cd Boot from CD and wait to go recovery console once thats done (This should run from DOS mode) , type in CHKDSK if it says there no error's type CHKDSK /P that will force it to scan and it should fix your problem.

Thanks for that I'll give it a try in a minute.

[evilfantasy]

corpsey, make sure your information is correct.

/p
Performs an exhaustive check even if the drive is not marked for chkdsk to run. This parameter does not make any changes to the drive.

You want to run chkdsk /r

/r
Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information.

[corpsey]

In a matter of Fact , my machine at home would not boot at all , so i shoved my xp cd and done chkdsk , and it said my DRIVE is fine but if you would like to force the check please type CHKDSK /P so i did that then it said , there was 1 or more errors on the drive, so i reboot and wala ! all fixed so dont tell me to get my info correct when it has worked for me thank you very much!