the Johnson computer is acting funny.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » December 22nd, 2006, 18:41

Since 2 days or so, my computer has difficulties starting up. Everytime i turn it on, he restarts at about 1.20 min. (sometimes sooner) It's utterly frustrating, to say the least

I tried system repair point (or whatever it's called in english, my windows is dutch) but he fails to do so. Anyone else ever had this problem and if so, how did you solve it? I believe it to be a virus, although i am not certain of anything, due to my lack of windows knowledge.

ps: i can manage to keep it from restarting by pressing the restart button before he resets himself. This doesn't always work, and it's rather unhealthy for my pc.
Thanks in advance,
Mr. Johnson, Oryctologist.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 22nd, 2006, 18:47

heat?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 22nd, 2006, 18:47

For starters you could try the tools in this thread to scan you PC for nasty things: http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=884

It could be a hardware problem, something is broke or getting too hot. Open up the case and check all the fans are running and clean out the dust.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 22nd, 2006, 20:33

Sounds like it could be the MSblaster virus, that resets after a sort of random amount of time. I had that a while ago, but it's old and I expect any hlaf decent virus scanner would pick it up.

http://www.symantec.com/security_respon ... 99&tabid=3

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » December 23rd, 2006, 20:29

Format?

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » December 24th, 2006, 16:33

pixie pie wrote:Format?

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » December 26th, 2006, 16:56

a format does seem like a good solution for my problem. it did however stop doing crazy things (for now...)

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 27th, 2006, 10:57

Mr. Johnson wrote:a format does seem like a good solution for my problem. it did however stop doing crazy things (for now...)

While it's behaving you should run all of the usual cleaners and checkers to be on the safe side: A good anti-virus scanner, Ad-aware and maybe A-Squared.

If you haven't already.