It's probably just windows wanting you to buy the next version.
But really, what did the message say?


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more like the sign of a f*kt up virus infected Windows installation. Don't say I didn't warn you.

its when it takes an approximate of 12hours to run an NDD surface scan (on a 40gb HDD) and that it takes pretty much forever to load teh start menu.

the only one ive had fail made a nice grinding noise for about a week before something packed up

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

"Dragons. They don't scare me.
Insectivores, aren't they...?"
The Soddit

read the topic
hd = hard disc
failing hd = no more gaming till replacement

Edited by - [STEEL on 2/11/2004 5:25:30 AM

Taw is correct, i had this problem and it was viruses back in Nov. A swift format of the HDD and reinstall of windows put it right.

Anyways - download spybot, adaware, and run scans (online ones are free and very up to date) and you might catch it. If not, i was told that www.moosoft.com do some real intensive scan stuff - but that its not free or sommat - not sure

perhaps failing spelling is also a sign?

i happened this moring again, and i wrote it down this time

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A fatal exception 0E has occered at 0028:C0031313. The current aplication will be terminated

- Press any key to terminate the application and continue

- Or press Ctr - Alt - Delte to restart the computer

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something somewhat happened like this before, and then i didnt have any interntet connection


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The wolfy types like a cow

@Wolfy,

Taw's response is the most likely answer. If your HD is failing (I've had it happen to me twice so far, once on my laptop) you don't always get those blue screen error messages.

Reason why I would side with Taw is because you've indicated that you don't update your Windows with the securityh patches that MS puts up on its site. No matter how up-to-date you may with with your AV, if you leave your back doors wide open (i.e., not update with the Windows security patches), you're going to get clobbered eventually.

You probably now need to try to do a very methodical AV wipe of your HD from scratch, booting up from your CD, etc., etc., etc. After that, you'll probably have to attempt a complete maintenance of your HD with scandisk, etc., etc. I'm not all that versed in this stuff but seems to me you could use a copy of Taw's field kit.

back up, repartion, reformat, reinstall os and apps, put on AV and firewall, connect to interweb thingy and do critical updates and AV/security definitions, then scan your backups and restore. take you half a day IF you do it right.

or get a good registry hive editor and repair prog and run that through, but I think you might be too far gone for that.

your o/s is fooked, Wolfy

Too bad you don't keep images of your OS on another partition, Wolfy. If you did, youi could restore a working copy of Windows with all of your programs in about ten minutes. Oh well, that's something to consider the next time you reinstall.

like he's gonna cope with partitions. keep it easy for the lad

Hear that, Wolfy? He doesn't think you can handle partitions! Prove him wrong!

*Mental note: I hope Wolfy doesn't ask "What is a partition?"*