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Bernd:
Hey guys,

If I dissapear for a couple of days don't worry. The computer I do all my work on decided to get sick. The power supply is acting up. It got hot and quit. I took it a part to take a look and the power supply was so hot I couldn't even hang on to it at one end. So I took all the covers off to help keep it cool. Looks like it will work for a while. I do have a spare computer right next to it with a more modern board and such but haven't go all the drives right yet. Meaning I've got one old drive to make it work.

On top of all that I've lost some pictures in my camera. Seems like when I put the memorey card in the computer one or more pictures are lost and I get told there is a trojan horse on the memorey card. So I started to do a scan of the copmuter and that's when it decided to get a hot power supply and quit on me.

Like I said I have the other computer but it needs to be hooked up to the rest of the stuff for doing my pictures that get posted to the forums. I'll still be able to get on and post. Just the build thread will take a while to get going until I switch everything over to the other computer.

Bernd

Bernd:
Well I did a scan of the whole computer. No virus. So that's good. Power supply is running cool again with all the covers off, but don't know how long.

This is the virus that is plaquing my card Exploit-MS04-028. McAfee site shows as this coming up in 2004. I have no idea were it came from. Almost seems like the camera itself was programmed to do this. It started acting up about a couple of weeks ago. Can't remember when I bought it. Has to be close to 5 years ago. Ya, I know get a new one. ::) I have. I'm using the wifes new Kodak camera. The one I have is an Olympus D-390 with a 16meg card. Worked great for what I'm doing with it.

Anyway looks like I'll get a bit of a repreve here for a while. :D

Bernd

bogstandard:
Bernd,

I had a nasty dropper trojan on my machine a couple of weeks ago. No idea how it got on there as normally I am very stringent on control of what gets onto my computer.

I think it was part of an old program, and because the virus software is updated daily, it started to pick up old 'viruses' even though they aren't.

It got on my nerves so much, I just saved all my data and cleaned the machine down software wise and reinstalled windows, it has been perfect ever since.

BTW, for perfect virus removal, you should always turn off system restore before doing your scan. Even though you can't restore back after you turn it back on, as the files are destroyed, it ensures that viruses are not 'trapped' in the system restore files that the virus scanner can't get to. Because if you don't do that, they are liable to pop back up again some time in the future.

For curing overheating, I usually take the comp outside and give it a good going over with a blowgun from my workshop air supply. It is amazing how much crap gets stuffed into crevises around the processor and power supply fans and cooling fins, and usually the graphics card is full of it as well if it has a fan.

John

Bernd:
John,

I almost believe it's the camera itself. I'm going to use the wifes camera for a while and see what happens.

Will have to look weather I have restore turned on or not.

Right now the whole equipment seems to be working fine so I'm not going to mess with it until I get my other computer up to par.

Thanks for the info though.

Bernd

Circlip:
On another tack, make sure the fans are actually ROTATING. My old system started to run a bit slower than normal at one point, so I thought it might be a hard drive overload and time to reformat and clean down. Took the covers off the beast, not only had the PSU fan ceased to rotate, but the CPU cooler fan had given up in simpathy. Replaced both fans (DON'T squish Rocket in despite what some folks say) and upand running again. And yes,I did give it the full rehash.

  Another thing you might want to try Bernd, Have you got the latest software installed in the camera for that model ?  If you go to the manufacturers homesite you should be able to check there. The bug may even have originated on a software download.

  Regards Ian.

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