thinkpad r40 went weirdo
Hi - I've been having BSODs from once every few days to several times a day - I've downloaded WINDBG from MS, but get this error every time I open...
Further to my previous message. I think heat seemed to be the problem..I hooked up usb keyboard poped out the notebook keyboard, totally exposing the CPU and fan..neared my room fan and everything seems to be working fine. The notebook fan is working too, switching on-off periodically. What scared me a little was the pop up message I received right after reinstalling new windows from restore drive. The message was saying something about spyware detected on my computer and telling me the best way would be to go ahead and shell out some dollars on some weird spyware soft...
It must have been activated by some kind of tracking cookie. whatever bug that somehow survived the restore...or hide itself on that restore parbreastion inaccesible for user? I was thinking booting my PC from regular CD and wiping out all the hard drive clean..no parbreastion no restore .. please tell me .. does this sound like a good idea - i would lose the preinstalled soft stored on that hidden parbreastion ? I seemed to get rid of the problem runing 'msconfig' and deactivating the 'messaging' whatever it was ...could the pop up message be activated by windows itself ? Thanks a lot
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