help quick Plz

[MitaDC]

Hey My comp is starting up way slow and it takes about 1 min for 5 startup items to load.......not detecting cd-rom drives either....just both hard drives......setup: 1gb ram, 2000xp, 80gb hd and 4gb(:0)) 9000pro. It started lagging so I rebooted it....downloaded a ton of microsoft window updates including service pack and this happened and also my logonui.exe file got changed back and also my ntoskrnl.exe from what I modified it to. Plz help fast. Thx

[Mickwish]

Windows version? XP Pro? XP Home?

Might be spyware or a virus. Do you have antivirus that is uptodate, and have you run a spyware tool like Spybot?

Cheers
mick

[MitaDC]

I have windows XP pro...will run adaware and run norton....I will update norton right now and tellu what happens...any more suggestions??

[MitaDC]

Also my cd-r and cd-rw r showing up in bios but not in windows.....

[Mickwish]

Spybot will pick up some stuff adaware doesn't

How about defragging the drive with windoze on it? Might be a bit frazzled.

Cheers
Mick

[MitaDC]

Just got a message that some files have been replaced by non-windows files...or something like that and that I need to enter my windows cd in drive to replace files to what they r suppost to be....but drives rn't working.....AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH what to do

[John Prophet]

Drives not recognized in BIOS doesnt have anything to do with windows..thats all before windows kicks in.

What are your settings in Bios..in the first BIOS part where you have settings for the IDE drives etc??

I would also physically check the cdrom cables etc etc to make sure everything is connected right.

If a drive is messed up and the BIOS cant detect it, it can cause a slowwwww bootup. See what the settings are.

Unplug both cd drives and set the BIOS to "not installed" (or whatever) for the cd drives. Then see if it boots up quicker.

Either way let us know what it says in the standard BIOS settings.

JP

[MitaDC]

The drives ARE showing up in BIOS but not in Windows

[MitaDC]

Just Rebooted...started up quicker but still no drives...have winxp cd in cd-rom and it asked to boot from cd so it is detecting the drives but windows isn't

[MitaDC]

This is the message I'm getting in the Device manager...first under DVD/CD-rom Drives -AVX CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device (click properties) - Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Samsung CD-R/RW SW-248F - (Click Properties) - Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Sony CD-Rom CDU5211 - (click Properties) - Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Anybody have any ideas what this is??