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My motherboard died... a virus?
Name: pisceslokelani Date: July 1, 2005 at 08:31:49 Pacific OS: WinXP SP2 CPU/Ram: P4 2.93GHz/512 MB
Comment:
Confused... I have Norton 2005 Internet Security, thought it was pretty good. 2 days ago my computer just turned itself off, its less than a year old. It will let me turn it on, but before it starts up, within 10 seconds or less (time varies) it will automatically power itself down... I had Best Buy run a full diagnostic on it less than 2 months ago when I had to replace a bad PSU & they said it was working fine. When I brought it in again, they said it was probably the motherboard... I only know of one virus that can effect the motherboard and that's only for older windows versions... is there a new one out?
Name: XpUser Date: July 1, 2005 at 08:46:07 Pacific
Reply:
Virus is not capable of killing the mobo. Take the PC back to Best Buy and demand they do it right the second time. You have PSU problem.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 2
Name: dannyboy Date: July 1, 2005 at 08:54:33 Pacific
Reply:
I think you're referring to the CIH virus - didn't it overwrite/erase the CMOS on infected machines?
I agree with XpUser though, that wouldn't cause the symptoms you're getting in this case. There is a hardware problem there somewhere. Is the CPU fan spinning?
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