Malfunctioning Computer (Possible Virus?)

[Buckley]

Hey guys. I was using my computer he other day and suddenly it crashed to a black screen with a blinking curser. At the moment I was just using it to listen to music.

I'm not a pro when it comes to computers, but I know the basics. Anyways, the first thing I did was hit F12 and run the diagnostics program. Everything passed the diagnostics (hard drive, processor, ram, drivers, ect). Then I booted to my windows 7 cd, and ran system repair. It came up with no repairs. Next I tried three different system restores. Each of them were successful, but when I booted from the HD it still comes to the black screen with the blinking curser. I also reinstalled windows without any luck.

Now out of curiosity I went into the command prompt and saw that windows and all of my files were installed on my D drive instead of C. I thought this was weird. In the end I would up formatting every drive (C and D). I installed a new copy of windows onto what shows up now as the C drive. But now when i open the command prompt im in the X: boot drive. I still get the black screen on startup.

I am out of ideas at this point. Anyone exerience anything like this?

 

[gigabiteme]

it happened to me on a 4 year old biostar ta780g mobo/i tried everything to try and save computer/it eventually booted but wud freeze at random/i can't answer anything for you/but i know the guys that can answer will want more
info about your computer/ i ended up building my own system and it worked
out really sweet/ i actually think my biostar mobo was the southbridge chipset wud overheat and shut down hd, but hopefully someone with proper answers can help you- good luck

 

[Buckley]

Finally figured out a way around it. Unfortunately I lost everything on the computer in the process but I wound up deleteing each disk partition except the OEM. Then made a new partiton which defaulted to C: and installed a new copy of Windows.

I tried searching for programs that I could upload and boot from on a jump drive that would let me rename drives but couldn't find any that were free.