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Pegoda
10-12-2006, 08:43 AM
900 Mhz w/768 Mem, 3 Removal HD's. Cannot boot in Safe mode from OS or from Win CD. Cannot open Firefox Browser. Can run IE6 and Incredimail XE and Outlook Express. Have just run SFC and Registry Mechanic. Ran SpyBot. Zone Alarm Security Suite crashed and would not run properly. Removed from the regristery with uninstall and RegSeeker. Could not remove all of the ZA regristery enteries. Installed temperially AVG software w/firewall. All seems to work OK as far as it goes. One other thing I must mention. This computer has printed on the screen in the Google search box, the words backwards and from right to left five different times. Not always in the Google box, Two times in the URL header box. I have witnesses to all occasions, so I'm not going crazy. Right to left and the letters were backwards. So help me God. Perhaps I need a Priest to clean this Computer From Hell.


Bob Moorman
Trinity Texas
tom_keefer
10-12-2006, 02:20 PM
Sounds like it's time to back-up, reformat and clean install WXP Pro.

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Pegoda
10-12-2006, 04:50 PM
When I can't get to the safe mode or boot from the cd, how do I format?
Bob

Bob Moorman
Trinity Texas
adg
10-12-2006, 05:13 PM
What happens when you try to boot to the cd?

Allan
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Pegoda
10-12-2006, 05:38 PM
Nothing. It will not boot from the CD. I can open the CD from My Computer and read the contents, but that is of no help. As I mentioned, I cannot use F8 to get in the Safe mode either.

Bob Moorman
Trinity Texas
adg
10-12-2006, 05:52 PM
You need to be more specific. What EXACTLY happens when you try to boot to the cd? Did you change the bios setting & put the cd at the top of the boot order?

Allan
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Pegoda
10-12-2006, 08:01 PM
Yes, of course, the cd was on the top, the first in the boot list. It would not boot. Sorry, I should have said so at the first. If a computer can print right to left and backwards, anything is possible. LOL

Bob Moorman
Trinity Texas
BertImmenschuh
10-12-2006, 09:32 PM
For the formatting part, forget it until you get the CD booting.

Even in Safe Mode you can't format the HDD the Operating System is installed on when booted to that drive.

Is the BIOS also reading backwards? If so, you need a new video/display adapter. But then sometimes it can be removed and plugged back in and work.

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adg
10-13-2006, 04:36 AM
Am I not being clear? What happens when you try to boot to the cd? EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS?

Allan
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Pegoda
10-13-2006, 02:39 PM
The computer does not even see the CD. It goes directly into the normal boot up. The CD unit light blinks, but nothing else happens as far as the CD is concerned. The CD is the first on the boot list in the bios. The serial number of the CD matches the serial number of the software installed in the computer. The one thing I question is that the CD unit is a CD/DVD/RW Unit. I cannot see where this would make any difference, as it works ok on all modes.

Bob Moorman
Trinity Texas
adg
10-13-2006, 04:39 PM
Okay. Is it the original XP CD or a copy? Have you tried any different bootable CD to see what happens? Do you get the "to boot from cd press any key" message at boot?

Allan
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Pegoda
10-13-2006, 05:24 PM
It is the orginal CD from MS. It does not give me anything. No questions. It does not exist as far as this computer is concerned. It is in the device manager, and is listed as good. It works fine on music and video. I'm out of ideas.


Bob Moorman
Trinity Texas
adg
10-13-2006, 05:47 PM
Again, what happens if you try booting a another bootable cd?

Allan
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