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MacroGuru
08-02-2005, 08:03 PM
Alright,

So I shut my machine down this morning, and I am now not able to boot up my box. It's telling me that the CPU Speed is invalid.

I run a

Celeron 2.6 400 FSB
ASUS P4S533-X SIS645DX/962L Motherboard
512 MB RAM

my initial clock settings are 100/33 Mhz with the 400 Mhz Memory Frequency

I do not know what do, I am ready to throw the bitch out the window....

Also, every time I re-boot, I get the one long beep
MacroGuru
08-02-2005, 08:26 PM
Also, the desktop rig is my gaming rig, I have installed nothing, and done nothing to it.

I am now stuck on my laptop until this gets worked out.
MacroGuru
08-02-2005, 10:08 PM
Nevermind, I solved it, but the bitch about this all, the thing that caused me to shut down, just eliminated kids rights on my machine....Trust me, daddy is pissed.....

I am now in the process of reinstalling my OS.
PilotMan
08-02-2005, 10:20 PM
So for those of us with kids that hit buttons that make you go

"How the hell did you do that?"

What did they do?

I was going to guess that something on the BIOS was changed.
MacroGuru
08-03-2005, 07:51 AM
So for those of us with kids that hit buttons that make you go

"How the hell did you do that?"

What did they do?

I was going to guess that something on the BIOS was changed.

I thought I had the machine locked down better against the kids surfing, however, my daughter has this idea, that if she wants to know something, she will enter in that thing followed by .com

For example....rockstarsongs.com or petrats.com

And sometimes those sites are not friendly, and like to dump malware/spyware on the machine.

Well, She finally did it on one site, where a trojan was dumped on my machine, upon rebooting the machine, my windows installation stopped working.

But to compile the windows installation not working, I was getting this CPU speed issue.

Once I sorted out the speed issue, I have had to reinstall windows on the desktop.

Now the crazy thing is, I do not know how I am going to back up my stuff off of the previous installation, I have now way, of getting into it, I even tried to just repair that installation and it did not do it.
thetrilogy
08-03-2005, 02:43 PM
Don't re-install the OS.

In Safe Mode:

Run McAfee Stinger.
Run Ad-Aware SE Personal (with latest updates).
Run HijackThis (with latest version).
MacroGuru
08-03-2005, 03:19 PM
Don't re-install the OS.

In Safe Mode:

Run McAfee Stinger.
Run Ad-Aware SE Personal (with latest updates).
Run HijackThis (with latest version).

Thats the problem, I could not even get into safe mode....it kept resetting...