Attempting to reinstall my OS and Reformat....
Jelenedra:
Yeah the first clue was the fact that it was MICROSOFT telling me to go somewhere other than MICROSOFT for something.
I'm pretty sure they don't do that whole.... cooperation thing.
KellyQ:
Quote from: Jelenedra on 2006 June 14, 16:12:37
Mmm, I dunno. It would say stuff like "You have a virus! Click here to download a free scan!" "A program is attempting to send to an unknown source!" "You have over the minimum 7 spyware blah blah"
"Dlasse.exe has terminated unexpectantly. Windows is shutting down!"
But then it wouldn't shut down. The box just vanished.
Then every once and awhile it would pull up my IE and take me to antispywarebox.com for a FREE SCAN!
I was just curious. I had the Winfixer happen to me (sounds a lot like what you are describing) but Norton and Ad-aware couldn't get rid of it. Finally removed it with Spysweeper (I don't know a thing about reinstalling Windows and/or reformatting, so glad I didn't have do that).
Hegelian:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 June 13, 21:12:36
Ignore the SCSI thing, that's just asking if you need some custom driver, but you probably don't.
Some motherboards (chipsets) require that SATA drivers be installed at the beginning of an installation of WinXP, probably because SATA wasn't around in 2001 and so XP doesn't recognize your SATA drives (assuming you have SATA drives!). I've not had to do this myself since I have SCSI drives in my PC, but as I understand it you should get a message at the beginning of the XP installation process to the effect of press a function key (is it F6?) if you need to install third-party drivers. I'm guessing you need to say "yes" when asked if you need to install SCSI drivers, and then insert the SATA disc you have from Alienware and follow the directions.
Jelenedra:
Sooo, when trying to run setup for windows xp home edition. It says "cannot find viasrai.sys" and then shuts down set up.
Comments, suggestions, point and laugh?
J. M. Pescado:
Get XP Pro Corporate. Home edition is spyware.
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