Greetings,
About two weeks ago, my computer dropped all four of my optical drives. Apparently the firmware just disappeared, so I tried to reinstall it with no success. Then I uninstalled all of my burn-ware programs like Easy Creator, Itunes, etc. and tried to reinstall firmware, then reinstalled Easy Creator.
With no success.
So at this point I tried to reinstall XP, as it would just have been faster than searching for a solution after ~3 hours anyway. In the process of the reinstall, I got a BSOD saying that I had a virus/ or hard drive damage, and the reinstall couldn't continue. I even unhooked the two hard drives, and tried to reinstalled a new hard drive, and STILL got the BSOD. So I went back to the copy of XP already installed, and installed some antivirus/malware programs, that gave me the solution of W32.Crypt, and it was quarantined, and I take it removed.
I still need to reinstall XP to fix some things, and I would like the reassurance that I am still not infected. I STILL get the BSOD, even after running all that software, which tells me the Worm is located in the BIOS or a PCI card.
My solution is to remove the infected c drive, do a low format on another computer, while it is out reset the BIOS via the dos format and/or pulling the cmos battery.
Anyone out there have any other ideas. BTW Chemist recommended I post over here in the hardware side to see if a resolution exists. Thanks for all your time.
