Is my Bios dead (VIRUS)

GTee · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: Is my Bios dead (VIRUS)

Hi all Im having a problem with my computer well 2 of them. Saturday night my main computer (AMD) started turning itself off, about 5 times in 10 mins so on sunday I tried to do a system restore and you guessed it it shut down half way through and would not boot back up. Format time I thought so I put in my XP disk and tried to wipe it. Everything went OK but when I got it up and running it started to crash again.

I tried different memory etc but it still was turning itself off so I called in a friend who is a computer tech he came round and tried formating it again and other things but could not get it running. He took it away to have a proper mess round with it and I got it back on tuesday, he said that he had to format it in his machine which has the same motherboard as mine.

Tuesday night set it all up and 30 mins into installing my software it shut down again then again and again. I phoned my friend who said he thought it was a HDD problem so I took the HDD out of my sons computer (he has had it taken off him for smashing his LCD screen) put it in my comp,formated it reinstalled XP, job well done it worked (for about half an hour) then it shut down again. Right I thought it must be a problem not with the HDD as 2 in such a short space of time I think not.

I put my HDD into my sons computer (P4) and formated this one got it running went to install AVG virus software but it would not run, kept saying that the file needed to run this program was missing. tried with another antivirus software same thing keeps saying that it cant run.

Up till now I have tried 2 HDD in 2 computers and both will not run antivirus software and both keep crahing. Could it be that I got a virus in my HDD that transfered to my Bios then when I put th HDD into my sons computer It has some how got in to his Bios

KenH · Chip off the ol' block Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 104

Have you tried clearing the cmos using the jumper...
I had a problem once where my computers clock was not advancing in
time whilst the computer was off, eg: if switched off at 2am, then back on
at 8am, the time would still show 2am...
The battery had 3.12volts so it was OK...
I cleared the cmos & reflashed the bios, & fixed the problem, which led me
to figure that I had a virus in the cmos...

In fact, I cleared the cmos 1st, then loaded the bios defaults & rebooted,
but still found the problem was there, until I both cleared the cmos, &
flashed the bios with the latest after clearing the cmos, leaving the jumper
on for at least 30 seconds...

cp · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: