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K so this is the deal.
Was playing bf2, chilling, PC froze up (has never done this before) and I got a high pitched noise coming from the speakers (not the pc). So I rebooted, when windows loads up, with the little bar thingy, it freezes up and goes no further, ive given it time 20 mins or so and nothing.
What I've done: Safe mode system restore to yesterday.
Safe mode with command prompt and done a chkdsk
Safe mode again and done a system restore to last week
Safe mode with networking gets stuck on loading windows files
Checked BIOS for system temps, system is running at 25 degrees and CPU is running at 30
TBH, Im a tad lost, only things I download are videos from filefront. Sites I visit are generally facebook, ebay, apple and bf2s.
I've had a mate round for a the last couple of nights, and he's been on the pc once while i was asleep, I know in the past he's visited all kinds of dodgy shit on my pc, ogrish.com and all that so there's a possibility he may have one to a dodgy site but I don't know.
I don't hav any AV or anti spyware stuff aside from windows firewall.
Generally speaking, I REALLY want to avoid a reformat.
Any ideas?
Sys specs: 2 GB DDR2 corsair 6400 (I think)
Core 2 due E6750, not overclocked
8800GTS 640mb
320GB samsung HDD
650 PSU
Abit Fatal1ty mobo, can't remember what one, if needed can find out.
And various other peripherals
Edit: Maybe one of the most important bits of info.... Running windows vista home premium 32 bit SP1
K so this is the deal.
Was playing bf2, chilling, PC froze up (has never done this before) and I got a high pitched noise coming from the speakers (not the pc). So I rebooted, when windows loads up, with the little bar thingy, it freezes up and goes no further, ive given it time 20 mins or so and nothing.
What I've done: Safe mode system restore to yesterday.
Safe mode with command prompt and done a chkdsk
Safe mode again and done a system restore to last week
Safe mode with networking gets stuck on loading windows files
Checked BIOS for system temps, system is running at 25 degrees and CPU is running at 30
TBH, Im a tad lost, only things I download are videos from filefront. Sites I visit are generally facebook, ebay, apple and bf2s.
I've had a mate round for a the last couple of nights, and he's been on the pc once while i was asleep, I know in the past he's visited all kinds of dodgy shit on my pc, ogrish.com and all that so there's a possibility he may have one to a dodgy site but I don't know.
I don't hav any AV or anti spyware stuff aside from windows firewall.
Generally speaking, I REALLY want to avoid a reformat.
Any ideas?
Sys specs: 2 GB DDR2 corsair 6400 (I think)
Core 2 due E6750, not overclocked
8800GTS 640mb
320GB samsung HDD
650 PSU
Abit Fatal1ty mobo, can't remember what one, if needed can find out.
And various other peripherals
Edit: Maybe one of the most important bits of info.... Running windows vista home premium 32 bit SP1
Last edited by Ec0li (2008-08-05 09:46:30)
