[Raktor]

Good point, forgot about the BIOS screen.

But spyware can do that much damage, I witnessed it myself

[Jake]

viruses AND spyware the viruses r gone tho i had 5000 infected files & 40,000 total files...3000 had to be destroyed so almost nothing works anymore and...... i have over 80 SEPRATE spyware programs that are TOO well hidden to manually delete W/O my parents spending $20on a decent adware removal kit. right before i got a fire wall ive had many "unothorized access attempts" and many times when ive been used as a slave machine (including now[if jake2022 sends you spam plz don't report me])since ive gotten a firewall (like 1 month) ive had many acess attempts 9 serious. not that pinging crap

ive been hacked so if I say stuff... like reallyreally bad contact me at Jake2022@aol.com

[Final F8]

Well, it's down being fixed right now. And yes Goto, I've only had about 2 and a half months so it's still under warranty, although if it is some sort of virus I don't know if it'll be covered. Oh well, I just hope it's repairable.

[Final F8]

Double post, yes. But also an update.

Apperantlly it was the motherboard, it just died for no particular reason. So luckily that's covered by warranty and he's put a new motherboard in it, free of charge. I'll pick it up after work today.

[Dart060]

Wohoo! I win!

Ha Bigbro, you got out-techied by a fellow Australian.

[X Zolon]

Heh.. from experience.. I know what goes wrong with a computer if it doesn't boot up. My first guess would have been motherboard as well... I wonder.. maybe a cord got loose and zapped it? Or just some random power surge, I'm going on a hunch the MB got fried.

And yeah.. I've had experience with blowing up my hard drives. Not fun. Chris = Defenestrating old hard drive if he hadn't given it to his uncle to try to fix.

And all my cool stuff was on that one.. wahh.

What's wrong with your dad's computer, Final?

[Goto]

Well at least it's fixed now, that's good to hear (what is not so good is that you're back onto runescape )

Computers tend to be fairly unreliable at the best of times, things do tend to suddenly stop working inexplicably. At least when it's fairly easy to determine where the problem is, that one component can be replaced so things are back to normal quickly.

[Final F8]

What's wrong with your dad's computer, Final?

Not sure really, it works ok... until you go on the internet. I think it must just be full of spyware or something. Even though he has alot of protection against that sort of thing.

(what is not so good is that you're back onto runescape )

It's GREAT! hehe