EPTBIOS infected with virus. Advice? - Page 2
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Sir.Kimmel
United States785 Posts
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celious
United States195 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On July 01 2011 10:00 Sir.Kimmel wrote: 1 because IT IS a coincidence.... and start testing it, grab an old graphics card toss it in.. problem will be fixed.... or you can simply pull out the battery like u hinted at earlier... simple... quick... and when you plug it back in and it does the same thing my point will be proven  now onto the next comment... let me rephrase that there has been one HUGE outbreak of a virus affecting the BIOS, but the conditions have to be right with a specific hardware type, the user has to be an idiot and run as administrator, and they have to also not password their bios.... Also, so lets say you finally find that one system, with the right BIOS and version, and you have a virus on there..... and they are running the specific OS version that you are targetting.. what now... literally this is all theory craft, there has only been one major outbreak of any virus affecting a systems BIOS, the rest is proof of concept, and honestly doesn't matter... its to hard to pull off, and there is no point in an attacker going after hardware and potentially damaging a machine, for instance an example, why would the US government take down a terrorist forum when instead we can just use it to glean information.... I mean come on.... post some actual viruses in the wild, and what they do... instead of posting to some "tomshardware" site... "some 'tomshardware' site..." Thanks for admitting your claimed qualifications are a load of shit. Anyways, other than that, you're arguing against me agreeing with you that it's probably coincidence and a hardware issue that he's misdiagnosing. I already said that they're incredibly rare due to terrible saturation. I'm just not going to bother telling him not to try what he's set on trying. | ||
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billyX333
United States1360 Posts
On July 01 2011 10:04 celious wrote: Its Hardware failure, dont be over dramatic and silly. how am i being over dramatic? Because I'd rather test cost free solutions before throwing down cash? | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On July 01 2011 10:06 billyX333 wrote: how am i being over dramatic? Because I'd rather test cost free solutions before throwing down cash? There's nothing wrong with testing the free stuff first, but expecting a BIOS virus over hardware does come off a bit drama-queenish. | ||
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Charger
United States2405 Posts
On July 01 2011 10:03 billyX333 wrote: Well what do you recommend I do from here? I dont have any spare parts around to test anything. Whats the cheapest solution? Do you have onboard video and a PCI video card (which you are currently using)? | ||
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billyX333
United States1360 Posts
On July 01 2011 10:08 JingleHell wrote: There's nothing wrong with testing the free stuff first, but expecting a BIOS virus over hardware does come off a bit drama-queenish. Ok if thats how it seems. I apologize. I just want to fix my computer without throwing it away | ||
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leser
Croatia239 Posts
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billyX333
United States1360 Posts
On July 01 2011 10:10 Charger wrote: Do you have onboard video and a PCI video card (which you are currently using)? No I don't otherwise I would be testing it out right now  | ||
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Charger
United States2405 Posts
On July 01 2011 10:12 billyX333 wrote: No I don't otherwise I would be testing it out right now Just double checking. Any spare computers in your house you could take the graphics card out of or put your card into to test? Or like someone else mentioned see if a friend in the area can spare a card to test. | ||
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Yorke
England881 Posts
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SonSon
United States106 Posts
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Horst
338 Posts
Jackass friend decided to "fiddle with the nobs" on it... ended up turning the voltage WAY TOO HIGH, and the thing started artifacting just like what you got there. The moral is, don't allow for unregulated voltage control of your hardware through the front panel. You might have viruses as well on your computer, which is responsible for that "you are infected" garbage. | ||
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cari-kira
Germany655 Posts
if you want to be sure: if your motherboard has no onboard graphics, get a graphics card from a friend for testing. | ||
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Coutcha
Canada519 Posts
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Zariel
Australia1285 Posts
Seen it happen too many times at my computer shop. | ||
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Swagalisk
United States7 Posts
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PraiseB
Australia135 Posts
But I wouldn't dismiss a dodgy fan either. I've seen allot of the fans on cheaper graphics cards just fall off or start hanging by a thread after a while. So another cheap solution could be to just open the case and point a desk fan inside, it's been a temporary fix that has saved my arse a few times. The best of those was when the fans in our DB server fried and started failing, had to run down to the data centre with a desk fan, pulled it out of the rack and put the fan over the top of it. Got us through 3 back to back AFL games without missing a beat. | ||
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Lmui
Canada6220 Posts
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jenzebubble
United States183 Posts
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