ZX5000 problem please look in

I have my ZX5000 for 2 days. When it came I rebooted the whole system and got rid off the junk. I then installed all the drivers, then I installed Windows XP sp2. I also updted the Bios. My problem is that I get this blue screen and it saids your computer is about to turn off to prevent it from damagin itself. Usually happens when it comes out of hybernation mode. Any toughts on this? This happened also when I had windows xp sp1. I ran memtest for like 3 hours and had no erroes. Here is my current config

p4 3.2ghz
1gb ram
128mb ATI
60gb hd

 

Looks like you may have been hot my the Blaster virus. This was a big problem on the systems with XP that did not have protection connecting to the web. Does the system boot for approx 30secs and then gives the message? If so, I'm sure it's the virus.

You may want to checkout this site and see if this tool helps.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

If it's not the virus, then it's possible the SP2 may be the other possible cause of the problem. If that's the case, I think removal of SP2 is the only solution.

-Vb-

 

If that's the case, it may actually be because of the SP2 update that is causing the problem. Was the system working fine before the update to SP2? If so, you may not want to install SP2 until later when they have most of the bugs worked out.

-Vb-

 

more specifec it saids error tcpip.sys

 

The zx comes with Norton, so how would he get a virus?

HP zx5000 - arrived! - P4 3.0HT, XP Home - 15.4" Widescreen/Brightview WXGA - 128mb ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 - 512MB SDRAM (1x512) - 60GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive - DVD/CD-RW Drive - 54g Integ Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN & Bluetooth - 12 Cell Battery = $1477

 

Because he did a full OS reinstall and may not have reinstalled Norton.

Besides, Norton is not infallable. I dewormed a friend's PC which had Norton installed with up-to-date definitions. He managed to stumble across the worm right before Norton added its signature. He's managed to do that twice, damned if I know how. This is where the Enhanced Virus Protection of the Athlon 64 CPUs comes in handy, you have a decent chance of being protected by it regardless of whether your AV knows about the critter.

Now if HP would kindly release Athlon 64 notebooks with a PROPER VIDEO CHIP so people won't have to buy Intel CPUs anymore (what kind of moron puts a 3-year-old video chip in a 64-bit notebook?!)...

 

I'm sure that person got canned. But regarding the virus issue, another way to protect your system from the Blaster worm or others that float around the net, is to have a hardware firewall (broadband router). My cousin, who has no router, would get infective immediately after connecting to the web after an OS reload, but I've done reloads galore without any problems (I have a router). I think because of the NAT protection, the worms doesn't/can't infect the system. I'm not sure if the is true or not, but I have never been hit by the Blaster worm, or any similar worms. Knock on wood!

-Vb-

 

well I installed norton, and did a full system scan, it said it found no infectiions. After that I uninstalled SP2 and since that no problem, so it might be SP2. Another issue ,, I play Doom 3 on this laptop, and almost everytime it freezes, I dont understand why b/c I am sure this laptop can handle it. Any toughts or suggestions?

 

Sounds like overheating, especially if you overclocked your video card. id specifically warned that overclocking your GPU was much more likely to fail on Doom 3 than with older games, something about lighting up transistors that haven't been used before.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by xodus6