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Fig Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Houston, TX, USA Insane since: Apr 2000	posted 08-25-2003 18:05 ok, was on my machine last night (win2k, athlon 800 mhz old architecture on biostar m7mka mobo, 384mb RAM, gainward geforce 3, sound blaster audigy, plextor cd-r, toshiba dvd) and the vector internet monitor component of zone alarm (vsmon.exe) seemed to be taking up a lot of system resources, not a lot of CPU power but a lot of memory. i tried reinstalling zone alarm but things were still sluggish, had been surfing for a while and rebooted. the machine came back up to a log-in box, then just clicked off and rebooted. since then i've gotten the exact same thing on multiple reboots. i tried switching out the video card and pulled out a stick of memory i installed a few weeks ago to no effect. this is looking very not good and i've got no idea where to even start to fix the prob as i can't get into windows to check anything out. thoughts/help/advice? thanks. chris KAIROSinteractive
ozphactor Maniac (V) Inmate From: California Insane since: Jul 2003	posted 08-25-2003 22:03 I remember getting this same problem a while back. Turns out it was some corrupted system files or something. If you can't get into Windows, your first step should be to dig out the Win2000 boot disks. There should be 4 floppies. If you didn't make them, try making them from another computer with Win2000 installed. If you don't have access to any other Win2000 systems, you're screwed . Make sure that your system is set to boot from floppy. Then stick in the first disk, and boot up. You should run into a blue screen with some options. Select the "repair" option, or something similar. Then it should start copying the core OS files needed. You should go through all 4 disks. Then reboot. If you still can't get in...
Fig Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Houston, TX, USA Insane since: Apr 2000	posted 08-25-2003 22:24 as i've done more research its also looking suspciously like it could be the blaster virus...very not good. i'll let y'all know... chris KAIROSinteractive
docilebob Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: buttcrack of the midwest Insane since: Oct 2000	posted 08-26-2003 06:28 You should be able to boot from the install cd. Once you get in you can repair .
Fig Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Houston, TX, USA Insane since: Apr 2000	posted 08-26-2003 16:31 i was actually able to boot into safe mode, apply the blaster fix (which said i didn't have anything) then apply the win2k fix and updated service pack. when i was finally able to do a normal boot, avg (which i had updated yesterday) told me it found the nachi worm and deleted it. go figure whatever the case, folks, UPDATE YOUR VIRUS DATA FILES. if you don't have anti-virus software get the free version of avg and use it, works great. chris KAIROSinteractive

Topic awaiting preservation: spontaneous reboot at win2k log-in prompt\$

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Fig
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Houston, TX, USA
Insane since: Apr 2000

posted 08-25-2003 18:05

ok, was on my machine last night (win2k, athlon 800 mhz old architecture on biostar m7mka mobo, 384mb RAM, gainward geforce 3, sound blaster audigy, plextor cd-r, toshiba dvd) and the vector internet monitor component of zone alarm (vsmon.exe) seemed to be taking up a lot of system resources, not a lot of CPU power but a lot of memory. i tried reinstalling zone alarm but things were still sluggish, had been surfing for a while and rebooted. the machine came back up to a log-in box, then just clicked off and rebooted. since then i've gotten the exact same thing on multiple reboots. i tried switching out the video card and pulled out a stick of memory i installed a few weeks ago to no effect. this is looking very not good and i've got no idea where to even start to fix the prob as i can't get into windows to check anything out. thoughts/help/advice? thanks.

chris

KAIROSinteractive

ozphactor
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: California
Insane since: Jul 2003

posted 08-25-2003 22:03

I remember getting this same problem a while back. Turns out it was some corrupted system files or something.

If you can't get into Windows, your first step should be to dig out the Win2000 boot disks. There should be 4 floppies. If you didn't make them, try making them from another computer with Win2000 installed. If you don't have access to any other Win2000 systems, you're screwed .

Make sure that your system is set to boot from floppy. Then stick in the first disk, and boot up. You should run into a blue screen with some options. Select the "repair" option, or something similar. Then it should start copying the core OS files needed. You should go through all 4 disks. Then reboot.

If you still can't get in...

Fig
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Houston, TX, USA
Insane since: Apr 2000

posted 08-25-2003 22:24

as i've done more research its also looking suspciously like it could be the blaster virus...very not good. i'll let y'all know...

chris

KAIROSinteractive

docilebob
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: buttcrack of the midwest
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted 08-26-2003 06:28

You should be able to boot from the install cd. Once you get in you can repair .

Fig
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Houston, TX, USA
Insane since: Apr 2000

posted 08-26-2003 16:31

i was actually able to boot into safe mode, apply the blaster fix (which said i didn't have anything) then apply the win2k fix and updated service pack. when i was finally able to do a normal boot, avg (which i had updated yesterday) told me it found the nachi worm and deleted it. go figure

whatever the case, folks, UPDATE YOUR VIRUS DATA FILES. if you don't have anti-virus software get the free version of avg and use it, works great.

chris

KAIROSinteractive