Blue Screen of Death.....

[Relic]

This is my home pc not the music pc thank God.

Awoke to a frozen desktop with no cursor, no response to cntrl alt dlt.

unplugged , plugged back in. left came back ..

Blue screen of death with messgage about "if this is your first time seeing this screen restart if not reinstall bios yadayada something." Pc was making a horrible repetitive noise so I unplugged and replugged, new screen that wants me to reinstall drive or something I follow it and it cant find the C drive its unknown.

= dead ass pc.

I needed a new one anyway and this may make the wife get it, but there WERE some kits on the thing that I had not yet transfered to my external drive that I wanted to get =(

anyone familiar with this?
Wifey is taking it to a pc store to get looked at.

Extra info: My Norton expired at midnight , I was gonna renew it today.
I wonder if something was just out there waiting to get me , or do they kill your pc if your ish expires with them?

 

[thedreampolice]

I need to know the exact error code.

 

[Pug]

Hmmm hard to tell without the code, but could be Hard Drive failure, or it could a motherboard/fan issue, or powersupply... I'd open her up if you can and check for physical damage, check the fans, wiring, if the hard drive is dead, best bet is to get a new HD or transfer it to a friend computer and see if there's anyway to recover the data.

Has there been any issues with the PC? Any power failures recently?

 

[Fade]

Ya what Pug said. It could be the hard drive, but I think it would probably be a black screen, but a BSOD I would say power supply or mobo. Or actually maybe it's just dust? I've seen it happen where there was so much dust inside it clogged up the fans and gave a blue screen.

 

[thedreampolice]

I doubt it is an HD usually they do not cause BSOD. More likely that it is a motherboard, ram or device issues.

 

[Relic]

Its not that dusty, the problem is I would have to be home to look for what yall are talking about , thus not be able to be online
This pc is kinda old and very used... Its going to the shop, NOT Best Buy.

Sorry I didnt see an obvious error code whilst looking at it, I was late for work.
Id LOVE to get a newer bigger beter harddrive for it! I LOVE to get a new pc nd be able to get at the data from the old one. I got ableton and acid and FL and reason and ish on it, and even though I dont use them I would like to be able to HAVE them in case I wanted to.

 

[Relic]

It was a virus they are cleaning it....Scrub scrub scrub.....

Fuckin Norton Assholes... lol

 

[7thangel]

i always wonder who are the people keeping norton in business despite the obvious problems they cause and their bloatware. there are better tools, free ones, that won't eff up your system, take it over or fail as much as some of the norton products.

anyways, get back data http://www.getbackdata.net/ and ontrack http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/file-recovery-software/ are good data recovery solutions if your drive dies, so keep them in mind in the future. both saved my old tracks, kontakt 2 libraries, guru data, basically my whole audio/sample drive when my old dell fried it with enough generated heat to make the devil's ass sweat

 

[Relic]

Hey 7th what are some good free alternatives for virus protection?

 

[Kontents]

Hey 7th what are some good free alternatives for virus protection?

Condoms.

 

[thedreampolice]

AVG free is a good one, thats one of the reasons I use a mac i dont have to deal with that crap. But Norton should actually work but you have to update it everyday. Also all that warez you are using....

 

[7thangel]

Condoms.

lol...and so true.

personally, i don't use all in one suites, like the ones from norton, avg, comodo, bit defender, etc, because they usually are only strong in one thing. so i use specific ones from various companies

anti virus: like mentioned, avg is good, but i personally stopped effin' with them (they go through some false positive phases which are annoying and dangerous) they're also heavy on resources.
nod 32 is good and light but there's no free edition.
bit defender free anti virus, which i use, is consistently in the top 3 (and 5) and so is kaspersky and avast.

free and good firewalls: comodo, pc firewall plus, online armor just to name a few

malware/spyware: spybot search and destroy, spywareblaster, malwarebytes

adware: ad aware

my personal choices:

in xp: online armor. spybot search and destroy, spywareblaster, bit defender, malwarebytes, cc cleaner and no-script and adblock plus add-ons in firefox

in win 7 x64: pc firewall plus, spybot search and destroy, spywareblaster, bit defender, cc cleaner and firefox with no-script and addblock plus

nothing i use is heavy and configuring them is easy. seeing how this would be your regular computer that really isn't an issue. even if you stick with norton, find out which one has gotten good reviews by users (it's usually not the one bundled free with computers) and updating is important.

 

[thedreampolice]

or a mac

 

[Relic]

I wish I had Mac money.

 

[skidflow]

I wish I had Mac money.

just become a Mac daddy and call it the day...lol

 

[Relic]

Word...
Im gonna put Norton back on it, once I get it back, hopefully I wont get "Jumped" before I get a chance to reup with Norton

 

[thedreampolice]

If your antivirus is not updating everyday you are in trouble. Just put AVG free or one of the other recommended free antivirus tools instead of an out of date norton.

 

[Relic]

Well it HAD been up to date until midnight apparently , then it hadnt been renewed so I got torpedoed..
Now they say they had to reinstall windows because they still couldnt get it to boot!
Something hit that fucker like the japs did the Arizona!

 

[7thangel]

honestly dude, it's all on you.

this kind of stuff is dependent on the user to practise bad computing/browsing. opening stuff without scanning, clicking emails they know they shouldn't (this is the major reason why folks get effed up), allowing 'security' online scans from god knows who, making shit worse, dl from places that aren't safe to get a txt from. you did something you shouldn't have

and now, you want to put norton back on, even though it may not be it's fault, it still makes no sense to go back to something you think might have failed you.

if it ran out it will run out again unless you buy the commercial version (and you still have to set it up or have someone do it for you), and if it didn't actually stop or get rid of shit, or you didn't take it's advice on what to get rid of, expect it to happen again

going to mac would only help you so far, if you still do things carelessly, clicking shit, installing shit, etc. shit an infected excel sheet will bring down both o/s if shared and distributed

 

[daproduct]

yeah those master boot record viruses are pretty good at kickin a computers ass. if you do end up going for a free one, id recommend avira free. then to disable those annoying ads that pop up, heres a few instructions:
click start, and select run
type in secpol.msc and press enter/hit ok
expand the "software restriction policy" directory
right cliick on "additional rules" and select "new path rule"
enter "C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avnotify.exe" (without the quotes) in the path box.
set security level to disallowed
click apply, then ok.
TADA you now have a fully functional free antivirus that wont tell you to buy the commercial license every 30 mins.