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Well the computer died properly on Monday, it starts up now with a blank dektop and a succession of illegal errors, Rik tells me its fatal and very expensive to fix...so my computer was brought through...I tried to install aol and the old problem I had where it sometimes froze completely on start up ever since I installed Norton Antivirus 2005 has got worse, it froze everysingle start up while aol was installed, I managed to force it to stay started up by closing everything as it tried to startup and then uninstalled aol, norton antivirus and a load of other crap meaning it can't go online...but what I want to know from any computer geeks on here is...
If I were to upgrade the pentium 3 processessor, 20GB hard drive and 64MB, 256KB memory into something better...would it fix the problem and would it cost a fortune...or would it be easier and less expensive to buy a whole new tower for my beloved monitor and scanner? Bear in mind I have to get someone to install these things cos I can't.
July 19 2005, 03:42:31 UTC 6 years ago
It's clearly the applications that are being loaded on startup that were crippling your computer (has the problem been resolved now that they're off?), and it could be already running processes that are causing the problem. If you still have a computer capable of going online, I suggest downloading HiJackThis, running it on the ill computer, and submitting the log to http://www.hijackthis.de - this will examine the running processes and tell you if there's anything malicious going on.
I'm not sure about the errors that you're getting on startup, though. What application are they from?
July 19 2005, 04:58:28 UTC 6 years ago