- Jun 5, 2006
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Last night I was playing City of Heros and I noticed that each time I'd press a button it would take between 1 and 2 seconds to register the key press instead of immediately doing so. The game menu itself was also delayed, but the mouse moved as fast as I could zip it around the screen.
I thought it was just lag (five other people using the wireless router in the house) so I logged off the game and shut the computer down and did some chores around the house.
When I came back and started the PC up, I saw the windows flash screen with the little bar scrolling left to right. That's usually up for a few seconds, which it was. However, after it went away, I was left with a blank screen. I put my hand on the case for a little while and couldn't feel the HDD's vibrating... it was like there was no activity. I let it sit for 20 minutes, still a blank screen. I restarted it and got the same problem. I tried the last known good configuration and got the same problem.
It was pretty late so I went to bed. In the morning, when I tried safemode with networking (so I could jump on the web, update my virus defs, and scan), I saw the huge list of everything that windows initializes during start up and it hung for a few seconds and then asked if I wanted to skip loading 'SPDT.sys'. If I say yes, it just hangs. If I say no, it takes about 5 seconds to continue through and then actually loads safemode. However, I couldn't launch specific programs. Networking functionality didn't load, even though I selected the option. The resolution, being safemode, was horrid so I slid the slider to the only other notch on the bar, up to 1024x768, but nothing happened when I clicked apply. When I clicked OK, the window went away but the resolution still didn't change.
At this point I had to leave for work this morning so I just shut it off and left.
Is this a virus or is my hardware going limp? I run Windows XP Pro with SP2 with updates current as of last week. I run Active Virus Shield. I have a 3.4gig dual core (I think it's DC or HT, I don't remember
), 2 gigs of DDR2, 2 300gig SATA's in Raid0, and a 7900 GS KO. Nothing is overclocked.
What am I missing?
<edit>
Okay from what I've found on the net, spdt.sys is a file used in conjunction with Daemon Tools. I don't know if DT actually installs this file or if it's native on the system prior to DT install. I see that some folks say that these symptoms are common if spdt.sys becomes corrupted, most often if you uninstall Daemon Tools while an ISO is mounted. I neither have an ISO mounted nor attempted to uninstall DT. Hell, I haven't used it in ages. It's set to start up when my computer starts up, but I'm too lazy to do more than just close it when I restart, which restarts are rare.
The computer was working fine just an hour before, which the only thing I was doing an hour earlier was still playing City of Heros. I *did* alt-tab to start the Azureus download of the Bioshock demo (1.8 ... GIGS? for a DEMO?), but that still had something like 5 hours to go before I chose to close everything and restart, leaving me with an improperly functioning computer.
I hope this helps. Any advice?
I thought it was just lag (five other people using the wireless router in the house) so I logged off the game and shut the computer down and did some chores around the house.
When I came back and started the PC up, I saw the windows flash screen with the little bar scrolling left to right. That's usually up for a few seconds, which it was. However, after it went away, I was left with a blank screen. I put my hand on the case for a little while and couldn't feel the HDD's vibrating... it was like there was no activity. I let it sit for 20 minutes, still a blank screen. I restarted it and got the same problem. I tried the last known good configuration and got the same problem.
It was pretty late so I went to bed. In the morning, when I tried safemode with networking (so I could jump on the web, update my virus defs, and scan), I saw the huge list of everything that windows initializes during start up and it hung for a few seconds and then asked if I wanted to skip loading 'SPDT.sys'. If I say yes, it just hangs. If I say no, it takes about 5 seconds to continue through and then actually loads safemode. However, I couldn't launch specific programs. Networking functionality didn't load, even though I selected the option. The resolution, being safemode, was horrid so I slid the slider to the only other notch on the bar, up to 1024x768, but nothing happened when I clicked apply. When I clicked OK, the window went away but the resolution still didn't change.
At this point I had to leave for work this morning so I just shut it off and left.
Is this a virus or is my hardware going limp? I run Windows XP Pro with SP2 with updates current as of last week. I run Active Virus Shield. I have a 3.4gig dual core (I think it's DC or HT, I don't remember
), 2 gigs of DDR2, 2 300gig SATA's in Raid0, and a 7900 GS KO. Nothing is overclocked.What am I missing?
<edit>
Okay from what I've found on the net, spdt.sys is a file used in conjunction with Daemon Tools. I don't know if DT actually installs this file or if it's native on the system prior to DT install. I see that some folks say that these symptoms are common if spdt.sys becomes corrupted, most often if you uninstall Daemon Tools while an ISO is mounted. I neither have an ISO mounted nor attempted to uninstall DT. Hell, I haven't used it in ages. It's set to start up when my computer starts up, but I'm too lazy to do more than just close it when I restart, which restarts are rare.
The computer was working fine just an hour before, which the only thing I was doing an hour earlier was still playing City of Heros. I *did* alt-tab to start the Azureus download of the Bioshock demo (1.8 ... GIGS? for a DEMO?), but that still had something like 5 hours to go before I chose to close everything and restart, leaving me with an improperly functioning computer.
I hope this helps. Any advice?
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