20 Mar
1999
20 Mar
'99
1:16 p.m.
Zane,
Have you gone into the BIOS and clicked on LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS ?
I hope this helps. Do you have a RESCUE DISK for the computer to use
after doing bios defaults? Maybe you could do a format on the hard drive
and reinstall everything. By all means USE an ANTI-VIRUS program.
John Amirault
Zane H. Healy wrote:
The serial ports are no longer recognized ANYWHERE
- in the BIOS, in DOS, by
MSD, Windows, anything. I have already re-installed Windows.
A virus planted by a hacker can damage hardware by "eating" at the chips, or
just scrambling the code in the chip. (I know someone (Ironically, it's the
sister of the person that did this to my computer), who's keyboard
controller chip got scrambled.
Have you tried upgrading your systems BIOS? Somehow I think that's about
the only thing a virus could do to mess up your system.
BTW, this is a good reason NOT to run Windows. I'd recommend either
getting a system that runs OpenVMS or at least installing UNIX on the
system you have.
Zane
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