Ghost in my machine?

[DrZeto]

Hi! I have a very frustrating problem. I have a dual-boot system with win2k and winXP. The system boots fine, both in win2k and winXP, but every second time the monitor refuses to turn on. It's like there is no signal trasmitted from the graphics card. I can hear the different fans work, and the power LED is turned on, but harddrive shuts down. The strange thing is that this really happens every second time i boot up, like clockwork. I tried playing some games the times it booted up correctly, but experienced lagging. The above described problem occured from one minute to another when I moved my computer to another place in the room. So that excludes a virus problem in my opinion.

So then I opened the chassi and removed the graphics card, then put it in place again. Now the system boots every time in winXP but doesn't boot up win2k at all. When I try booting win2k the monitor goes black during win2k startup screen. There are some minor graphical errors in the progress bar on the startup screen. The CPU and chassi fan are running fine but harddrive stopps working, as described above.

So, it seems it's a hardware problem, right? Or is it software related? If it is hardware, is it the graphics card or the motherboard that is malfunctioning? I've run some tests with Eurosoft PC-check but couldn't find any hardware problems. I'm really confused here, plase help...


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AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton)
ASRock K7S8X
Gainward GeForce4 Ti4200
1GB DDR RAM PC3200

 

[wanderer27]

Initially my thoughts are you don't have graphic drivers installed for one or both configurations, but after reading more, it may be more than just Video card drivers.

 

[DrZeto]

I have different versions of nVidia drivers installed, one for win2k and another for winXP. Remember, it all worked fine until I moved the computer about ten feet...

 

[wanderer27]

I didn't notice that. That would tend to point to an AC power problem, but the issues you're having don't really fall into that category.

Did any cables get knocked loose ? It's a longshot, but reseating the cables might be a start. I'd check them to make sure nothing got bent/cut during the move - yeah, it's only a few feet but it doesn't make much sense.

Hmm, this is an older MB. How long ago was this put together ? I'm still thinking a possible driver or even a BIOS issue - outside the movement thing (that's just wierd).

The HD fail and Video flakiness make me think PSU. You could try a different power connection from your PSU to the HD to see if that helps that issue, but if the whole PSU is flaking it won't necessarily help - and there would be nothing to do about the video (unless drivers can't be loaded).

I better stop, I'm starting to get off on some tangents Let's see if any of the above clarify the picture.

 

[DrZeto]

Thanks for all your help and good ideas. I think I've solved the problem though. I went over to my next door neighbour and borrowed his Palit GeForce 6600GT 128MB. And YES! everything is woking fine now, the computer boots normally. Tomorrow I'm off to buy a new graphics card

One thought though, when playing games like Empire Earth II and Vampires The Masquerade (Bloodlines) the 6600GT showes the same poor performance as the Ti4200. Shouldn't it be a huge difference between a generation 4 and a generation 6 graphics card?! Maybe the bottleneck is elsewhere, like my motherboard? Any ideas?

 

[BadThad]

Are you playing games under XP or Win2k? Do you have the latest chipset drivers installed? Post a hijackthis log for the gaming OS.

 

[DrZeto]

I'm playing in win2k and no, I don't have the latest chipset drivers (for the graphics card) cause when I tried them the result was even worse, lot's of lagging. I use nVidia ForceWare version 78.01

Here comes the results from HijackThis:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 21:48:17, on 2006-03-09
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINNT\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program\Delade filer\Acronis\Schedule2\schedul2.exe
C:\Program\Diskeeper Corporation\Diskeeper\DkService.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program\Eset\nod32krn.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\regsvc.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\MSTask.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\stisvc.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\WinMgmt.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\MsPMSPSv.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINNT\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINNT\htpatch.exe
C:\Program\Java\j2re1.4.2_05\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PDVDServ.exe
C:\Program\Hewlett-Packard\Toolbox2.0\Apache Tomcat 4.0\webapps\Toolbox\StatusClient\StatusClient.exe
C:\Program\Eset\nod32kui.exe
C:\Program\Winamp\winampa.exe
C:\Program\Meaya\Popup Ad Filter\PopFilter.exe
C:\PROGRAM\LAVASOFT\AD-AWA~1\Ad-Watch.exe
C:\Program\BearPaw 2400TA Plus\Driver\WATCH.exe
C:\Program\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
C:\Q3 Minimizer\Q3E Minimizer_v1.45.exe
C:\Program\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Administratör\Mina dokument\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = http://g.msn.se/0SESVSE/SAOS02
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://login1.telia.com/
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer =
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = http://login1.telia.com;<local>
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName = Länkar
O1 - Hosts: 64.91.255.87 www.dcsresearch.com
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O3 - Toolbar: @msdxmLC.dll,-1@1033,&Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINNT\system32\msdxm.ocx
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Synchronization Manager] mobsync.exe /logon
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HTpatch] C:\WINNT\htpatch.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:\Program\Java\j2re1.4.2_05\bin\jusched.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RemoteControl] C:\Program\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PDVDServ.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [StatusClient] C:\Program\Hewlett-Packard\Toolbox2.0\Apache Tomcat 4.0\webapps\Toolbox\StatusClient\StatusClient.exe /auto
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nod32kui] "C:\Program\Eset\nod32kui.exe" /WAITSERVICE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WinampAgent] C:\Program\Winamp\winampa.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NeroFilterCheck] C:\WINNT\system32\NeroCheck.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CloneCDTray] "C:\Program\Elaborate Bytes\CloneCD\CloneCDTray.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [THGuard] "C:\Program\TrojanHunter 4.0\THGuard.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AWMON] "C:\PROGRAM\LAVASOFT\AD-AWA~2\Ad-Watch.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINNT\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Popup Ad Filter] C:\Program\Meaya\Popup Ad Filter\PopFilter.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [AWMON] "C:\PROGRAM\LAVASOFT\AD-AWA~1\Ad-Watch.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [msnmsgr] "C:\Program\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background
O4 - Startup: MSN Messenger 7.0 (2).lnk = C:\Program\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
O4 - Startup: Yahoo! Messenger.lnk = C:\Program Files\Yahoo Messenger\YPager.exe
O4 - Startup: Genväg till Q3E Minimizer_v1.45.exe.lnk = C:\Q3 Minimizer\Q3E Minimizer_v1.45.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Microsoft Office.lnk = C:\Program\Microsoft Office\Office\OSA9.EXE
O4 - Global Startup: Watch.lnk = C:\Program\BearPaw 2400TA Plus\Driver\WATCH.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Reader Speed Launch.lnk = C:\Program\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\reader_sl.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: Allow Popups - C:\Program\Meaya\Popup Ad Filter\WhiteGetUrl.js
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java-konsol - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {85d1f590-48f4-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66} - %windir%\bdoscandel.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Uninstall BitDefender Online Scanner v8 - {85d1f590-48f4-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66} - %windir%\bdoscandel.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Messenger - {E5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-B5C9-0050045C3C96} - C:\PROGRA~1\YAHOOM~1\YPAGER.EXE
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Yahoo! Messenger - {E5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-B5C9-0050045C3C96} - C:\PROGRA~1\YAHOOM~1\YPAGER.EXE
O9 - Extra button: Trashcan - {072F3B8A-2DA2-40e2-B841-88899F240200} - C:\WINNT\system32\shdocvw.dll (HKCU)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Show Trashcan - {072F3B8A-2DA2-40e2-B841-88899F240200} - C:\WINNT\system32\shdocvw.dll (HKCU)
O16 - DPF: {00B71CFB-6864-4346-A978-C0A14556272C} (Checkers Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/msgrchkr.cab31267.cab
O16 - DPF: {04E214E5-63AF-4236-83C6-A7ADCBF9BD02} (HouseCall Control) - http://housecall60.trendmicro.com/housecall/xscan60.cab
O16 - DPF: {14B87622-7E19-4EA8-93B3-97215F77A6BC} (MessengerStatsClient Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/MessengerStatsPAClient.cab31267.cab
O16 - DPF: {2917297F-F02B-4B9D-81DF-494B6333150B} (Minesweeper Flags Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/MineSweeper.cab31267.cab
O16 - DPF: {2BC66F54-93A8-11D3-BEB6-00105AA9B6AE} (Symantec AntiVirus scanner) - http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/SharedContent/vc/bin/AvSniff.cab
O16 - DPF: {39B0684F-D7BF-4743-B050-FDC3F48F7E3B} (FilePlanet Download Control Class) - http://www.fileplanet.com/fpdlmgr/cabs/FPDC_1_0_0_44.cab
O16 - DPF: {48884C41-EFAC-433D-958A-9FADAC41408E} (EGamesPlugin Class) - https://www.e-games.com.my/com/EGamesPlugin.cab
O16 - DPF: {54B52E52-8000-4413-BD67-FC7FE24B59F2} (EARTPatchX Class) - http://simcity.ea.com/update/EARTPX.cab
O16 - DPF: {5D86DDB5-BDF9-441B-9E9E-D4730F4EE499} (BDSCANONLINE Control) - http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/oscan8.cab
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupda...86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1123112138703
O16 - DPF: {644E432F-49D3-41A1-8DD5-E099162EEEC5} (Symantec RuFSI Utility Class) - http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/SharedContent/common/bin/cabsa.cab
O16 - DPF: {665585FD-2068-4C5E-A6D3-53AC3270ECD4} (FileSharingCtrl Class) - http://appdirectory.messenger.msn.com/A...pps/FileSharing/en/filesharingctrl.cab
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftup...86/client/muweb_site.cab?1137067950156
O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai.net/7/840/537/2004...l.trendmicro.com/housecall/xscan53.cab
O16 - DPF: {8E0D4DE5-3180-4024-A327-4DFAD1796A8D} (MessengerStatsClient Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/MessengerStatsClient.cab31267.cab
O16 - DPF: {94EB57FE-2720-496C-B33F-D9353C6E23F7} (F-Secure Online Scanner 2.1) - http://support.f-secure.com/ols/fscax.cab
O16 - DPF: {9A9307A0-7DA4-4DAF-B042-5009F29E09E1} (ActiveScan Installer Class) - http://acs.pandasoftware.com/activescan/as5free/asinst.cab
O16 - DPF: {A3009861-330C-4E10-822B-39D16EC8829D} (CRAVOnline Object) - http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ravonline.cab
O16 - DPF: {B38870E4-7ECB-40DA-8C6A-595F0A5519FF} (MsnMessengerSetupDownloadControl Class) - http://messenger.msn.com/download/msnmessengersetupdownloader.cab
O16 - DPF: {B8BE5E93-A60C-4D26-A2DC-220313175592} (ZoneIntro Class) - http://zone.msn.com/binFramework/v10/ZIntro.cab34246.cab
O16 - DPF: {C36661D7-3590-45B1-80B5-520839E94DAD} (MaxisSimCity4PatcherX Control) - http://simcity.ea.com/update/MaxisSimCity4PatcherX.cab
O16 - DPF: {EF791A6B-FC12-4C68-99EF-FB9E207A39E6} (McFreeScan Class) - http://download.mcafee.com/molbin/iss-loc/mcfscan/2,1,0,4635/mcfscan.cab
O16 - DPF: {F6BF0D00-0B2A-4A75-BF7B-F385591623AF} (Solitaire Showdown Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/SolitaireShowdown.cab31267.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{FC00ACF9-95F2-4940-8560-ECF7AA708A22}: Domain = FOO
O17 - HKLM\System\CS1\Services\Tcpip\Parameters: SearchList = telia.com
O17 - HKLM\System\CS2\Services\Tcpip\Parameters: SearchList = telia.com
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\Parameters: SearchList = telia.com
O23 - Service: Acronis Scheduler2 Service (AcrSch2Svc) - Acronis - C:\Program\Delade filer\Acronis\Schedule2\schedul2.exe
O23 - Service: Diskeeper - Diskeeper Corporation - C:\Program\Diskeeper Corporation\Diskeeper\DkService.exe
O23 - Service: Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service (dmadmin) - VERITAS Software Corp. - C:\WINNT\System32\dmadmin.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program\Delade filer\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: NOD32 Kernel Service (NOD32krn) - Eset - C:\Program\Eset\nod32krn.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINNT\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPZ12 - HP - C:\WINNT\system32\HPZipm12.exe