Some days ago I got an error about isass.exe or something like that. Obviously probably the sasser worm! But I didn't know that at the time...people hadn't been complaining about it then. It gave a countdown to restart my computer every time I restarted my computer. Then my computer wouldn't load windows at all. So i refomatted my hard drive and tried to reinstall a new OS. It kept giving me blue screens and errors during the installation. I even got an OS installed once, but there were so many dll errors and blue screens I couldn't stand it. I finally got Windows ME to install and run on my computer...but errors still abound (this is even after formating several times). I had AVG when I got the isass.exe error, and I have it now too. I run AVG anti-virus and it finds no viruses or anything like that. I've done the home virus scan from the internet as well, but I got an error at the beginning when it tried to run. It still ran, but didn't find anything after that error. WHAT THE HECK DO I DO??? I was getting so many dll errors and I/O errors I thought it was my ram. I took a stick out, and the errors seemed to disappear somewhat...but I still get I/O errors when trying to install video drivers, or install anything for that matter. Any suggestions, ideas, faint attempts at anything?

Can you do a full restore as a last resort? did you run the virus checkers in safe mode? to remove spyware use spyware blaster or spysweeper way more effective than others. do a scan for trojans as well norton doesnt pick up on these, good luck.

"WHAT THE HECK DO I DO?" Run linux or win98, the safe operating systems.

1. Fdisk /mbr 2. Fdisk 3. Format 4. Reinstall Windows There is no turning back, now that you've woken up the demon in me...

1. Take ME cd 2. Insert into toaster 3. Press button on toaster down 4. Watch that piece of s---e melt Then go and get 98se like the other guy said, or go and get XP you may think of upgrading to 512mb ram with xp, basically when bill gates wanted to create ME he went into his team slapped 98se on the table and said "This works, now i want you to f*ck it up and call it windows ME" Q-TEC 550 Watt PSU MSI VIA KT4AV-L 2800+ Barton 512 DDR333 GeForce Fx5200 128Mb Aero 7 Lite 80Gb Samsung ATA133 HDD 120Gb WD ATA100 HDD LiteOn LDW-851S LiteOn LTR-52246S

Are you sure you got the sasser worm? According to Symantec a Windows 98/ME system can spread the worm but is not affected by it. It only causes problems on Windows 2000/XP systems. You could have hardware problem: hard drive, CDROM drive, motherboard, power supply, RAM, high temperature, PCI/AGP card, etc. You could also have some bad software or driver. To narrow down the problem try these: 1. Test you memory. Get memtest86 from http://www.memtest86.com. This will eliminated bad memory from being the cause. 2. Get the hard drive diagnostic tool from your hard drive manufacturer.

The worm is a possibility, because I was running windows 2000 at the time. When I formatted...all I could install successfully was Windows ME. So i went from Windows 2000 to Windows ME. I have tried fdisk and partitioning A LOT. But that's a whole other story involving NTFS and FAT32 file system structures. The problem with trying to test my RAM with memtest or any other program is that I can't install programs because I get errors when trying to install or run them. I am sitting here in VGA mode because I can't install my video drivers, it says that any file I download is corrupt and can't be run.