Thanks again for your patience and assistance... I will be back at the subject unit this afternoon and will take the action recommended above....ckl
Listed below is the result of the Combofix program. Please note there was a problem with the Windows Installer Program and I was unable to remove...
Thank you. I will not be able to be at the affected computer until later today or early tomorrow. I will report in with the results as soon as...
I did see that and reran Malwarebytes ...removed the two Pup issues and the system still won't boot in Normal Mode...
The exclusive and particular reason that everything was run in Safe Mode is that the original problem is that the system will not boot in NORMAL...
Results of all required scans are recorded below. Thank you for reviewing them...ckl MBAM-Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.51.1.1800...
I am complying with the indicated procedures with the exception of the antivirus scan. I could not download any antivirus program into Safe Mode...
[Inactive] XP Rebooting in Normal Mode This thread is a carryover from the Windows XP Forum titled " XP constantly rebooting ". We are now going...
Please note the heading for the Malware Post is "XP Rebooting in normal startup" and will be posted shortly with reference back to this forum.
You got it ... will post and assume for the moment that we are dealing with malware...Thanks for working me through this...ckl
Read one blog fix that attributed the rebooting to a memory slot issue... So for lack of anything better I tried swapping the cards and using...
Attempted the "clean boot" (multiple times)as per instructions to no avail. Also removed all unnecessary programs and attempted to do a restore...
Terminator....Thank you for the response. The reality of the problem is that the owner of the PC let someone else "clean it up" and neither they...
A friend computer (Dell Optiplex 745C Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300, 6300@ 1.86 GHz, 0.97GB RAM running Windows XP Home Edition version:2002 SP3)...
I was unable to boot the system successfully and 'uncheck' the "compress files on this drive" box ..So I formatted a flashdrive and did a...
I had the same problem with another HP series Printer (4500 wireless) and only resolved the problem by downloading the corresponding program from...
Brilliant....Thank you ....can do ...will let you know how it goes ... I did have it apart to clean all of the cat hair out of the components,...
Worst case scenario HP offers a "fix" to do a total restore from a flash drive on their website. I am trying to avoid that as there are files and...
The OS running on the machine when it was purchased was XP. When I went into the BIOS the only boot option was ... SATA:PM-ST9160827AS... the...
While I am waiting for an XP recovery disk, I found an old HP cd-writer 8200 series external hard drive cables and all in the extra parts drawer....
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