I am running a cobbled system:
Jetway V266B MB
Athlon 1800+ processor
western digital 60 gb hd
win 2k pro sp1
Ati Radeon 7200 Graphics
Adaptec Ultra Scsi PCI
Network Everywhere 10/100 PCI
Generic 56k winmodem PCI
Now, all my problems started with the introduction of this blasted blaster worm into my system. I got the worm, deleted the exec, modified the registry, in short, i killed the virus. I then went to install the wonderful microsoft patch, but realized that sp1 was not high enough to accept the patch, so after a painful 8 hours or so i had sp2 and the patch was installed. That was when all the trouble started. I began getting random reboots on the system. They would come during times of full and no cpu usage. I did just install a new memory chip before i got the virus, 256 ddr 266mhz, but i was running the system fine for a week with the new memory before the virus. I checked the error logs, made sure the computer would not reboot on errors and turned it on hoping for the best, ten minutes in or so, while i am online i am sad to hear 'click' and see the computer rebooting. This time though, a message informs me that the memory is being dumped and windows refuses to start. So, i whacked the system. I repartitioned with fdisk, reformatted and wrote zeros. I boot the system up to install win 2k again, 'click', reboots before it even reads the cd. so, i took out the new memory, seems to maybe have fixed the rebooting problem, but now i can't get windows to install without file transfer errors, and sometimes during reboot i can't even get a monitor display, is it possible i have too many cards and need to strip the system down for the reinstall ? Or are these virus symptoms, or maybe i just pressed too hard installing the memory and separated some layers in the MB? Any and all tips would be a great help for this possesed computer. (would it offend or help anyone if i mentioned that i am pretty sure the computer is a female ?
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