Wierdest Computer Problem Ever

MrPink

<div class="IPBDescription">You haven't heard this, tech support...</div> Every night, at midnight, my computer crashes. Only at midnight, and it seems to be only when I'm using it because I leave it on at night but go to bed early, then wake up the next morning and it's fine. When it crashes, I see the blue screen of death, but instead of words it just has a small grey box in the middle and a cursor. Any suggestions?

Anti-Bomb

It's probably a virus try scanning your HD, if that doesnt work run ScanDisk or restart several times.

MrPink

Did all of that except restarting several times because this has been happening for probably 6 months or so now so I've restarted numerous times in that time period, it's just now that I realized it always happened at midnight.

Anti-Bomb

Maybe you have setting that turns off the computer at a certain time?

If nothing else works, then reformat.

Quaunaut

OMG H4X!!!11onefivenine!1

j00 |-|4\/3 t3h Y2K |3|_|65!!!11one

j00r 60|\||\|4 |)13z0|2z!!!11five


Or, for the non l337-litterate:

Oh my god, you have the Y2K bug. That really sucks.

OttoDestruct

Thats not the weirdest. I've seen a computer which turned itself back on exactly 15 minutes after it was turned off. Every time.

GreyPaws

what OS are you running?

MrPink

Windows ME (worst OS ever)

I'll probably just buy XP and everything will be fine.

DOOManiac

monse will kill me for saying this but:

format helps :P

RaVe

Umm....

You sure you set the year right in BIOS?

I remembdered hearing something like this a LOOOONG time ago....

Mr-Stabby

LoL, oh i loved the hype about Y2K Bug, it was all great wasn't it. There were even films about it.

Who remembers a telemovie made around 1999. It was based around a nuclear power station, and the millenium bug caused it to explode. How lame, lol

Bosnian_Cowboy

I have the same problem, except I'm not sure if it is at midnight. But it happens no matter what. The computer can be just being idle and it will happen. I have Win ME also.

Anti-Bomb

Try running auto-update but yeah, I would just get a new OS because ME is crap.

Emsee

Check to see if you have any schedueled tasks set to run then and try using the housecall virus check, incase your pattern files are out of date. <a href='http://housecall.antivirus.com/' target='_blank'>clickeh</a>
Does it happen at midnight or just when the system clock says it is? Try setting it to 23:59 if you havn't already and see what happens.

Thansal

well, we could sit here and try to debug till the cows come home (or midnight for MrPink cuss then he poofs <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)

but we can't realy know anytihng simply B/C ME = trash. I have seen somany things that can only be chalked up to that spawn of Satan OS (It forces your computer to sacrifice HardDrives to it, I aint kiddin)



OHHHHHHHHHHH

I FIGGURED IT OUT!!!

You have the Cinderela Virus!!!











Your computer is actualy attempting to become a pumpkin.

Zig

ever hear the joke about cinderella and the chastity belt?

at midnight it was supposed to turn into a pumpkin.

she comes back at like noon the next day, and her fairy godmother is like w7fh4x?!

and she's like oh don't worry, i had tons of fun.

with who??

um... peter-peter-something-or-other...^_^


<span style='color:blue'>eheh</span>

Wheeee

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computer virii can do that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Bosnian_Cowboy

How do I get this virus out? My anti-virus software isn't detecting it.

SkulkBait

Well... as has been stated before, since its ME, you really can't say for certain its a virus. I have seen things happen to ME systems (that are aparently self infliceted) that I could swear was the work of pixies.

If it is a virus you'd have to try the three Rs of windows fixin': Reformat, Reinstall, Repent. Which would probably clear up the problem even if it wasn't a virus....

Guysmiley

I had exactly the same problem a while ago with Windows ME. It would crash right when it hit midnight, giving me the blue screen. If I remember correctly, I fixed it by reloading the registry from a month or so prior, then updated everything just to be sure.

If that's not an option, then... hell, I dunno.

Still don't know what caused this; I doubt it was a virus, but I'm not ruling that out. maybe it was all the porn el oh el

Birdy

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It's a ghost i tell ya

Thansal

trend micro house call (google)

upto date libs, free, just its OL so takes forever <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> (oh wait they always take forever <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)

Anti-Bomb

Update your anti-virus software if not then just burn all the files you dont feel like downloading all over again on a CD and reformat.

MonsieurEvil

This topic makes the baby MonsE cry. Go repost in tech support, and provide all system info as required by that forum.

Soliciting technical help in the NS off-topic forums is like asking strangers for marital advice at a subway stop. You may occasionally get a good answer, but mostly it's a bunch of imbecile wife-beaters telling you to 'kill that beyotch'.