Hi, I posted two weeks ago regarding problems with a repair installation of XP Home. I tried two of these and still got lockups and problems booting up.
I decided to do a clean install. I followed the procedure correctly- XP, motherboard drivers, video card, sound card, modem, SP2 , XP updates. I rebooted or swiched off with each installation. Everything went fine intiatally. On the second day when I powered up. No POST beep. Pressed restart - nothing. Inserted XP CD and switched off at mains. Restarted with installation CD in and it booted up fine. I uninstalled the last program which had been installed. (Adobe Acrobat 6.0). Rebooted. Went online - freeze up. Restarted without the installation CD. Everything seems to work fine. Booted up today and everything seems to work ok.
I have Spyware Blaster 3.4 installed and AVG Virus. I installed and ran A squared - it tells me I have Riskware-
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KILLAPPS.EXE. I have searched the net and can't find anything that says it is dangerous and wether I should remove it.
What could have caused this problem?
I have attached a .doc file with my system and application details.
Thanks for any help or advice.
John
I decided to do a clean install. I followed the procedure correctly- XP, motherboard drivers, video card, sound card, modem, SP2 , XP updates. I rebooted or swiched off with each installation. Everything went fine intiatally. On the second day when I powered up. No POST beep. Pressed restart - nothing. Inserted XP CD and switched off at mains. Restarted with installation CD in and it booted up fine. I uninstalled the last program which had been installed. (Adobe Acrobat 6.0). Rebooted. Went online - freeze up. Restarted without the installation CD. Everything seems to work fine. Booted up today and everything seems to work ok.
I have Spyware Blaster 3.4 installed and AVG Virus. I installed and ran A squared - it tells me I have Riskware-
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KILLAPPS.EXE. I have searched the net and can't find anything that says it is dangerous and wether I should remove it.
What could have caused this problem?
I have attached a .doc file with my system and application details.
Thanks for any help or advice.
John