Virus(?) erases Windows harddrive and replaces with Novell screen

[Eric]

On that special day, Eric, ([email protected]) said...


Does your computer have a network card with a chip inserted? Such chips
are used for booting PCs in terminal mode, loading the OS from some
remote server instead of the hard disk.

This would mean it isn't a Novell OS loading, but your computer cannot
find anything to boot from (broken hard disk?), and tries to fetch the
OS from outside via said network card, and the network card contains a
chip with a very basic Novell OS, but can't go on, as there is no server
available.


Gabriele Neukam

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Ahh, this may be true. Symton are: my PC just freezes, and then all
this happens. Also, the BIOS sometimes loses settings(betcha I have
low battery-time will get messed up on occasion). Maybe it's as
simple as a broken harddrive and, by default, it goes on to load from
a chip on the motherboard/network card since it can't read anything on
the hdd. (In my case, the network card is integrated with the
mainboard)
Well, that sounds like it may be it. Just a broken hdd.
I hope it's that simple.

Thanks for the idea.


Eric