A couple days ago, I found that my computer had a virus (my homepage kept switching to about:blank and a little search window would pop up if I tried to google anything). Spyware Stormer found "NetObserve" and seemed to remove it, X-Cleaner found "Iefeats" and couldn't remove it, and in Add/Remove Hardware, I found "Shopping Wizard" (which I couldn't remove either). I followed the instructions on a site(http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?p=172774#post172774) and ran HSRemove(http://majorgeeks.com/download4286.html), then Ad-Aware SE, Spybot, and then AVG anti-virus. Then, I installed and ran the program Hijack_This.exe (http://www.short-media.com/forum/sho...84&postcount=2). All of this seemed to remove the virus! Unfortunately, the next morning I went to turn the computer on (after my dad had turned it off the previous night) and this is what happened: the third black screen with white writing (I dunno what it's called) came up, and when it said: Verifying DMI Pool Data..... Boot from CD: Boot from CD: another black screen came up with a blue rectangle saying "Off Mode in 5 Sec." and it restarted. Every time it gets to the "Boot from CD" part, it restarts (so, of course, I am writing this on a different computer). What do I do? AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Hi jack this is a very dangerous tool in the hands of unknowing people. When it removes something..it is gone and never to get it back. I think that you might have removed some critical registry intries and you are going to be forced to reformat and reinstall your system. You need to go to your manufacture's website and find out what you need to do to perform a soft reinstallation. A soft reinstall will not cause you to lose all your personal data compared to a hard reinstal which wipes everything and starts all over from like new condition. Not all manufacturer's offer the soft reinstall. In The Matters Of Style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, Stand Like A Rock

julzrinny, strikes me you have more than one 'nasty' so lets get after them one at a time. Maybe this'll help?? Be aware that these folks want to sell you something, but they offer a free 30 day trial and lotsa claims. http://www.scanspyware.net/info/IEFeats.htm Find some more removal tools for "Iefeats" @: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Iefeats+removal&btnG=Google+Search All claim to be able to deal with "Iefeats". Black screen with '>' is a dos command prompt, do you ever get that? Sounds like you have other issues as well. Find an excellent writeup on homepage highjacking @: http://forum.worldstart.com/showthread.php?t=43513 Can you restore? HTH. Ed in Texas.

A reboot loop like you are experiencing can be caused by a bad power supply. See my post in this: http://www.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/44871.html It can also be caused by the mboard responding to an overheating cpu, and/or by a 3 wire cpu fan that isn't spinning as fast as it should be or has stopped because of failing bearings.