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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Farferello on June 27, 2007, 01:11:00 PM

Title: Recovery from a system error?
Post by: Farferello on June 27, 2007, 01:11:00 PM

I was surfing the net earlier and downloading a torrent when my screen suddenly spazzed and sort of went black before my computer rebooted suddenly. After it started loading it went through searching to see if there were any errors and it said something about Firefox and Azureus (the torrent program I was using) and that their were errors or something and it had been truncated.

Once the scan reached 100% my computer loaded normally and then once everything was booted up an error message popped up saying it had recovered from a major system error. Does anyone have a clue as to what might have caused this? I haven't had any real problems proceeding this so it was out of the blue. Does it mean my harddrive is failing? The computer isn't that old. /unsure.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':unsure:\' />

It has also been a little slow lately but none of my virus/spyware scans has found anything abnormal so far.

-Far

Title: Recovery from a system error?
Post by: guestolo on June 27, 2007, 09:44:28 PM

It could of been really nothing, happens to everyone every once in a bit

But on the other hand, it's a good thing to check things out
Can we have a closer look please
Download Hijackthis 1.99.1 from my signature below
SAVE it to your desktop

Double click on hijackthis_sfx.exe on desktop
Click the UNZIP button>>OK the prompt
This will self extract to C:\Program Files\HijackThis
Delete hijackthis_sfx.exe from desktop

Go to START>>RUN
Copy>>paste the following to the open field, then hit OK
%systemdrive%\Program Files\HijackThis
This will open the Hijackthis folder
RIGHT CLICK on Hijackthis.exe and select SEND TO>>Desktop (create shortcut)
You can now run Hijackthis.exe from the new shortcut placed on your desktop

Do a "SCAN and Save a Log file"
A log will open in Notepad
Copy and paste the WHOLE contents of the log  here... Don't try and fix anything yet----It is all important