PC under attack?

poppellerant

Ratboy wrote: »

I already did. Do you? No. However I'm no troll to provide no information to the OP, but refer to a poster. So, well done! Posting nothing, and nonsense!

My replies to JohnG have all helped them in one way or another to get their PC in a working state.

Unlike yourself, I do not provoke others by claiming they are posting "nothing and nonsense". If you feel that I have given ill advice, then let me know by telling me how, where and why.

Ratboy

John - I'm not saying in your case the network card - but your video card (is it onboard?), I was using it as an example of Windows seems corrupt due to hardware.

Can you disable/try an alternative video card in the meantime, to dismiss any other errors/faults? As I did.

In my case, internet worked, flash player worked, etc, but it wouldn't download a specific file, and firewall not initiating.

Maybe in your case, the video card works; but part of it is faulty, thus causing the issues? ie same as me, but with NICard? That !!!!!!s up Windows?

Why is Windows so fickle? and pop? The irony of the NIC that I installed, is that it is dodgy anyway, and sometimes not recognised at all at random! Must buy one.

poppellerant

JohnG wrote: »

197Current Pending Errors Count 1001000000000000-0000000[IMG]file:///C:/Users/John%20&%20Clare/Downloads/HDDScan-3.3/HDDScan-3.3/Yellow.ico[/IMG]
198Uncorrectable Errors Count 1001000000000000-0025000[IMG]file:///C:/Users/John%20&%20Clare/Downloads/HDDScan-3.3/HDDScan-3.3/Yellow.ico[/IMG]

JohnG wrote: »

The PC has been working reasonably satisfactorily this week but I can sense, particularly when clicking thru web sites and browsing stuff fairly quickly, it can start to hang and stall, so I have to sit back and wait otherwise it's likely to crash altogether. The PC also makes that uncharateristic straining noise at certain times which doesnt sound good.

This tells me the harddrive is faulty. What you are hearing, JohnG, is the harddrive attempting to read the bad sector a number of times in order to recover the data. If it can recover the data, it moves it to a working area of the harddrive. Either way, if the harddrive has recovered data or not, the bad sector should then be marked bad/faulty.

The uncorrectable information from HDDScan is probably data the harddrive has not been able to salvage from the bad sector. Because data from that sector is unreadable, files may be rendered corrupt.

I suspect the issue with Youtube could actually be down to the same issues a lot of people are having at the moment - that being slow loading of videos, if at all.

Does the machine play videos online okay from any other source? Such as iPlayer, ITV Player/ or Vimeo? (used Google URL Shortener as these forums don't like Vimeo links for some reason)

If the machine can play videos fine from any of the above links, then perhaps it is a Youtube issue. If the machine seems to struggle playing the vdieos, then I would be inclined to suspect either a driver or Flash Player issue.

Once your new harddrive has Windows installed, it would be interesting to see how it plays videos from any of the above links once Flash has been installed.

Let your computer play the videos for a while. This will soon point to any heat issues that are present as Ratboy rightly suggested. I don't think integrated graphics have temperature sensors, but it would certainly be interesting to see your current CPU temperatures - this can be shown in AIDA64 by going to Computer on the left and clicking on Sensor on the right.

JohnG

Many thanks Poppellerent, I'll check the data you mention later (just got in from work) but it's quite likely Flash Player or something that is not fully up to date or installed even but hopefully I'll be able to update everything more effectively once the new HD is in place (Just heard it's been dispatched so won't get till early next week I susppose).

Cheers for the now and have a good weekend! :beer:

JohnG

Hi Proppellerent (Hopefully) or a n other IT expert?

I rcvd the new hard drive a couple of days ago and have just installed it into PC with no problems.
However, having started up PC I get the message:
"Reboot and select proper Boot device or insert Boot media in selected Boot device and press any key"
Now you said I should check that Bios recognises the new hard drive - how do i do that? And if it doesnt how should I proceed?

Initially the first screen lists two drives one being the DVD the other I'm guessing is the new HD but I didnt make a note of the number on the HD to be sure? it starts with ST1000 on the first screen so would make sense.
Anyway, I can do an F8 on reboot and again it shows the two apparent drives so I choose the DVD drive as instructed earlier but it then just goes back to the message above - am I supposed to put the Windows DVD in before selecting the DVD drive to reboot? Sorry bit thick at this point, I just don't want to screw up the new drive before I even start.

Appreciate earliest advice

Thanks

poppellerant

Okay, it sounds like your boot order isn't properly setup.

This is the manual for your motherboard (Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3). From that, I shall try to tell you how to change the boot order.

1) Turn off the computer.
2) Turn on the computer. Repeatedly press the DEL or Delete key on your keyboard. Do this until you are in the EFI BIOS Utility.
3) On the bottom is Boot Priority. This tells your computer which device to try booting from first.
4) According to the manual you can use the keyboard or mouse to drag the harddrive so it is first in order. So make sure that the harddrive is first, then CD/DVD drive.

While you're in the BIOS, it might be worth checking Boot in the Advanced setup (top right button) and making sure the harddrive is first.

JohnG

Hi Poppellerant, thanks for getting back. Have changed the order but still get the same msg ? Should I be putting the Windows disk in the DVD drive to boot from?

JohnG

Actually I've just checked in the advanced mode and the order still shows the DVD drive first. Thought I had changed it ok but obviously not.

JohnG

Have looked again and see that it highlights the hard drive under 'Boot option one' but Boot override shows the DVD drive, might that be the problem?

poppellerant

Boot override might be just autoselecting the first boot device it thinks you might use. To be quite honest, I'm not sure.

Have you installed Windows on the harddrive yet? If not, this is why you're getting the error message. Put the Windows install disc in the drive and use boot override to select the optical drive. You should then be able to install Windows.