What the heck?

[Anomaly1964]

So I am watching a movie on my television through my computer...

About 3/4 through, I get a "lost connection" message on my TV...

I got into the room where my PC is and the screen is black and there is this message:

SYSLINUX 3.86 2010-04-01 EBIOS

WTF?

Upon researching it is some kind of error when you are trying to install unbuntu?

I have NEVER tried to install that...

What on earth could have happened?

I tried everything and basically had to do a total reinstall of windows 7 to get pc going again...

ANY ideas?

 

[Anomaly1964]

No ideas from anyone?

 

[Puppies04]

Not a clue but I am just as intrigued as you are.

 

[KillerBee]

Did you ever try installing VMware ESXi?

 

[Anomaly1964]

Did you ever try installing VMware ESXi?

Doesn't ring any bells...

 

[C1]

What if it is not an Unbuntu error at all, but an error created by sniffing of a network security monitoring agency like EBIOS 2010?
http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/en/the-anssi...nd-identification-of-security-objectives.html

You may have just gotten bitten by some WIN7 DRM and/or some DRM in the firmware of one of your pieces of hardware (eg, video or network).

 

[VirtualLarry]

Was this movie hosted by one of "those" sites?

Might be an exploit?

 

[mindless1]

I suspect you had a HDD problem that caused the system to reboot and upon doing so it didn't see the HDD and so it proceeded to boot from some bios built in bootloader that happens to depend on Syslinux.

Either that, or a ninja was rebooting your system off a USB thumbdrive and had to pull it out for a quick escape when he heard you coming.