Computer savvy people? update post 21

[Blue_Frog]

My computer was doing this 2 years ago, i had to replace tha hard drive and one of the memory sticks and re-install windows XP. It has worked fine until i installed Limewire, now it is infested with adware and spyware and viruses that i cant get rid of. Right now im on my laptop too because my computer is a big pile of it. Im mean HUGE pile of it. Oh, yes. And did i mention that one of the viruses is programmed to destroy the physical part of my computer because it melted my computers CPU and memory sticks by overheating. So i guess my computers age has caught up with it. Im going to buy a new computer sometime soon.

I'm sorry that your computer has turned into a pile as well -- try reformatting again.

However, I have to disagree, a virus will not physically damage your hardware (I used to work tech at a major antivirus company, and i've never heard of this happening) -- see this article at Symantec --

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...99041209131106

Because of the publicity that viruses have received, it is easy to blame any computer problem on a virus. The following are not likely to be caused by a virus or other malicious code:
Hardware problemsNo viruses can physically damage computer hardware, such as chips, boards, and monitors.

It sounds more like you had a cooling issue in your PC that caused the meltdown.

[Hellow]

Well, my computer is not very well ventalated naturally then the virus came and worked my computer so hard that it melted my computers cpu and memory. At least i know that my slow laptop is still working cause im on it lol.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Missy ~

Why don't you continue to UPDate THIS Thread -
rather than start another new thread discussing the same problem?

Folks can follow along better if the Whole Story is in ONE thread.

/s/ Phred

[Sirrahsim]

I did a full format and reinstalled XP.
It is thinking about working now. I can get into Windows but get error messages left and right. I'm working on downloaing the many windows updates that it thinks I need but it is slow going because the computer keeps randomly restarting itself. Some piece of my hardware is obviously corrupt so this is a temporary fix but I'm happy with it for now.

[Hellow]

Hey does anyone have an extra hard disk because i started re-formatting and it got halfway done then the power blinked and my computer shut down. So i cant install windows and i cant boot.