Corrosion. Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 ok well I was on youtube with my vista laptop and my headphones wouldn't work, then my audio stopped working and then my network slowed down..... earlier in the week I kept getting messages the windows had crashed and needed to restart.... We'll I realized the system was infected but stupidly continued on, I restarted my laptop only to the that most of my drivers were uninstalled! I lost: display rom drive wlan network touch pad so not very fun, I know the system's hosed and I'm currently adding the SATA drivers to my xp disc and will re-install into windows xp. I'm curious though, What kind of virus does this? I've seen some nasty ones before but this one really disabled everything it needed to in order to prevent me from fixing it without reinstallation. I did have a dual boot with ubuntu on it so I could get my drivers on to the machine but I still couldn't get my dvd drive going again.... Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Dying hard disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion. Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 No, it's still a farily new pc and I've not had problems other than whats posted before hand. I've downgraded to xp without issues and its running great, I'm just making it as secure as I can this time around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 It could still be the hard drive as Sparda suggested. Though a new laptop drives usually die immediately after a short period of use or last a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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