End3R

so i think i got a bad virus. my monitor went black and wont do anything. when i restart i see the post screen then nothing. if i leave it running ill hear windows open but cant see anything and cant get it to boot from cd so i can format it like i have before... HELP!!!!!!!!

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Radeon915

Can you enter the BIOS and put your dvd drive up as first boot device? If you tried booting from a cd like that already and it doesn't work it's probably something with your videocard.. do you have another one you could check with?

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End3R

i cant get to the bios screen. the post comes up it looks kinda orange and then turns black and does nothing even when trying to enter bios

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Sickened1

If you can't even get to bios its not a virus. Sounds to me like something died.

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Cyberbot

What makes you think this is a virus? It could be several other things. Have you downloaded anything strange and what websites did you visit before this occured?
That's what I'm thinking aswell. But I'm unsure about what could have died in there. If it is the RAM it wouldn't even start (or it would start and then die 1-3 seconds after), if it's the CPU it wouldnt start either, if it was the GFX; well there wouldn't be any picture at all.. Most likely not the HDD either as you are able to enter BIOS with a dying HDD..

EDIT: Or wait, it can be a dying GFX..

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WingedCow

More like your vid card is busted lol

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kz26

Definitely sounds like a hardware failure. Since you can hear Windows open, that means the system is actually running. I'd bet it's the video card - perhaps one of the display controllers on it decided to retire early?

Just for an interesting side note, the only virus in recent memory that could actually cause hardware damage was CIH - released in 1999, it had the ability to brick certain BIOS chips by corrupting the data on it.

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xandypx

this^

suspect either your video card, the video cable, or the monitor.

you can try hooking the video card to the monitor using a different cable, or also possibly using a different connection type, ie VGA, DVI... depending on what you have available.

Try a different (known working) video card, cable or monitor.

JKBenchmarks

Once it goes black, it never comes back.

Also, what were you doing before this happened?

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Syrillian

You might also want to try another expansion slot if one is available.

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