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Patoota Help Required - dapleb - 21-06-2010
Did a very big oopsie.
Have avast virus scanner. Think it runs automatically but the pc flashed some message too quick to read. So i ran the quick scan on c and d drives-
It said it found a virus and recommended put in vault and rename. Was a .sys file. Pc worked fine after. Turned off, tried to turn bacon this eve and it wont get to windows ...think i did a boo boo.
Oubt i can do to get pc workin?
Patoota Help Required - dapleb - 21-06-2010
I pressed the any key and tried to boot from cd, it tried to load some gubbins then i got a blue screen of death summat about pci.sys
Patoota Help Required - catsbum - 21-06-2010
tried f4 when booting, then safe mode?
Patoota Help Required - dapleb - 21-06-2010
Tried all the modes non of em work.......gulp
Patoota Help Required - shaftdrive - 21-06-2010
some cnut has been invading my contacts and firing off emails using my address with links to a canadian health care selling viagra , problem is i cant find out who is doing it but you can be assured that if i got my hands on him her or it ,i would tear them a new a%$e hole [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ranting.gif[/img]
Patoota Help Required - Guest - 21-06-2010
What o/s is on the computer?
Have you changed the boot order?
Patoota Help Required - Jankers - 21-06-2010
Can't help with Windows, but if you get it working again look up
http://distrowatch.com/
and download Mint and PClinuxOS (right hand side listing).
Mint uses the Gnome desktop, PClinuxOS uses the KDE desktop, both run off a live Cd so you can try them without actually putting anything on hard disk.
You can run Windows as well, (a dual Boot) on a separate partition. Unless you do on-line gaming you can then avoid Windows for the net and stay safe from nuisance virus problems.
I have run such a set-up for the last six years, never go near the net on Windows; works for me.
J.
Patoota Help Required - erny - 21-06-2010
every time thats happened to me, I've had to do a fresh install.
I started ditching the hd's eventually as well.
Patoota Help Required - tdm850rider - 21-06-2010
I am extremely rusty with DOS/MSDOS...
Sounds like you need to get pci.sys (system file) back in.
Find some geek help and go into MSDOS and move that file back to it's original location.
Patoota Help Required - dapleb - 22-06-2010
<!--quoteo(post=167058:date=Mon 21st Jun 2010, 09:56 PM:name=Paddy900)-->QUOTE(Paddy900 @ Mon 21st Jun 2010, 09:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->What o/s is on the computer?
Have you changed the boot order?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It was on XP.
Aint done oubt to boot order, do i need to? Trying to shove in disc was when i ran out of patoota talent.
Patoota Help Required - dablik - 22-06-2010
Dappers a great big hammer does it fo rme every time [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
Sorry cant be more helpful than that other than to say i agree with bout using Linux, never had an online problem using it.
Patoota Help Required - cypher - 22-06-2010
pci.sys normally resides in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers - it's a windows system file and windows won't run without it.
I'll see if I can send you the file off my working and virus tested XP machine..... just copy it to the right spot and reboot, should work (I think! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/excl.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif[/img] )
PM sent....
Patoota Help Required - dapleb - 22-06-2010
Thanks Tim. Think my pci.sys thing is a different issue to the orig prob.
After typing in the whole Stop: 0x0000007E blah blah thing in google this morning it refreshed my memory that I got this thing before because I didnt have SP2 slipstreamed to the disk or summat. Tony sended me a disc...but maybe I shoved in the wrong one or summat.
Will try and find a slipstreamed disc or whatever and give it another go. Do I need to change the boot order loike what paddy mentioned?
Cheers for the help.
Patoota Help Required - TonyDevil - 22-06-2010
if its already reading from the disc you dont need to change boot order
if you have a SATA hard drive you cant use a windows XP CD without SP2 on it
Patoota Help Required - dapleb - 22-06-2010
I don't have a SATA.
So if I get the slipstreamed disc thingy then I might be able to get back to windows? What do I need to do if/when I get back in?
Cheers.
Patoota Help Required - TonyDevil - 22-06-2010
when you get to the install screen select the R - repair option....
Patoota Help Required - markallinson - 22-06-2010
Me? I'd download UBUNTU burn it to a disc. Then you can run it as a 'live cd' i.e. try without installing, if that works ok then you can install. Then stick two fingers up to Microsoft!
Also you can install UBUNTU inside Windows and uninstall it without problems, but of course you need a running Windows OS.....
Bit drastic and non Linux bods don't like the sound of it but it's worth a try. I only keep Windows running as STEAM doesn't run on Linux sob.....
Patoota Help Required - dapleb - 22-06-2010
Ok ta. Oil try that tonight...or whenever and reports back.
Patoota Help Required - TonyDevil - 22-06-2010
steam runs fine in the windows emulator wine [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]
Patoota Help Required - markallinson - 22-06-2010
<!--quoteo(post=167140:date=Tue 22nd Jun 2010, 12:08 PM:name=TonyDevil)-->QUOTE(TonyDevil @ Tue 22nd Jun 2010, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->steam runs fine in the windows emulator wine [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Interesting....... may have to investigate this route