Thursday, May 18

Computer blues  

My computer is now taking something like 15 minutes to boot. I've been running into some delayed write issues with this computer, one with the $MFT, so I think my system has managed to get royally screwed up. Also, tonight, I had to unplug a USB hub, because new devices weren't getting recognized. But now my flash drive is accessible, and my phone is charging.

I'm going to go through the event database, and look and see what the Microsoft knowledgebase has to say about it. I may have to do some tuning.

I've scanned the computer with Computer Associate's eTrust AV. I've tried to scan with TrendMicro's online scan, but it blows the browser out after about 15 minutes of running. Firefox or IE, regular boot or safe mode. So it makes one wonder. I've also had issues keeping the CMOS set the way I want it. I set the boot order to be HP DVDRW drive, then the motherboard IDE drive (currently a Western Digital 200 gigger), and the first one then get's changed to boot from the Promise card connected IDE hard drive, or the DVD-ROM drive.

Battery going bad? The date and time aren't having issues, which they would be if that were the case.

So I dunno.

One issue that I was having was that middle clicking wasn't working the way it was supposed to. I got rid of my KatMouse program that allows me to control a window scrolling just by hovering over it, and the issue went away. Looked at the preferences, and found out that it was a setting there that was throwing me for a loop.

Sysinternal.com's RootKitRevealer isn't showing anything that is actually stealthed, so I'm not root kitted, at least at the Windows level (a hypervisor that loads before Windows could technically be loaded, but I don't think so).

When the delayed write errors start happening, I lose control of everything. Network is "up", but it's not really active, I can't even ping the firewall. Anything connected via USB is dead. I have to turn the computer off, then reboot, and then it "works", or at least a facsimile there of.

I'm supposed to be the expert at this crap, and I don't even have a clue.

I have a tech disk, that maybe I can update with the latest and greatest drivers and update that.

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