Hardware Failure? Software problem? Or virus?

deathscythe99 SG

Heys all,

I've a peculiar problem here...

Both my desktops (Windows) went down roughly the same time today and I'm unable to get them started up. When I switch on the button, the monitor "power" flickers and there is nothing shown on the monitors. I've switched the monitors to test but to no avail!

Another thing is, I just used one of my computers to remove Norton Antivirus, and got my AVG in. However, when I uninstalled NA, there was a freeze (ie nothing moves) and I rebooted, and then the screen gave me all the weird colours, changing aspect ratios etc...Then at last...BLANK. Nothing seen.

Anyone got any idea what's the problem here? Sad

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Removing Norton just did a great service for your PC.

deathscythe99 SG

Hmm what did you mean?

Oh on top of that...before I removed my NA I couldnt really get the PC to start up till once...then I quickly checked the hardware for failures and used Registry Mechanic to check all the registry entries - and there were a lot of problems -_-". Winamp did not work also due to some soundout error, but I managed to fix it by reinstalling the sound codec.

Sighs.

Now using laptop but I need some of the programs on Windows, which cant be found on the Mac -_-"

Herzog_Zwei SG

Meaning Mr Deathscythe99 here just raised the porticulis and let in the viruses.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Norton is famous for removing things that it shouldn't remove.

It probably remove some of your graphics card drivers...

As for your previous computer problems, it is hard to tell. Windows always have lots of registry entries left behind, from old programs or your recently opened programs. One of those old program registry keys might be a culprit to your computer problems.

You have to try reinstalling Windows and see if it is a software problem or hardware problems.

deathscythe99 SG

The problem now is I couldnt even see anything on the screen after the power switch of the cpu is pressed.

Meaning, the CPU runs, but the screen is blank and the light from the "power" button is flickering.

So...no output??

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Are the cables connected properly?

What about when you switch cables?