Recent content by chuky53

Somehow yesterday a trojan installed on my computer which keeps installing and running ccminer-cryptonight (which gets installed in multiple folders each ending in a different numeral RarSFX0, RarSFX1, RarSFX2 etc. in this location : c:\users\\appdata\local\temp\RarSFX0 ) The strange thing is...

My best guess is that it is indeed the sata mode that is blocking the whole thing. Does anyone know if there are some jumpers on a compaq presario cq57-339wm that I could use to change the sata mode to IDE ? and if so, where they are located?

trying to boot from cd with the hdd disconnected didn't work either, wouldn't move past the bios message that shows when swithing to boot order menu.

So I bought myself a hdd enclosure to use the hdd in question as a external hard drive and installed windows on it that way. The installation was successful and was able to run and update the windows while it was still in the enclosure connected to my personal laptop. Then I installed the hdd...

if only I could get something to boot wether install cd/usb, boot cd full of tools or live usb os, I could get it fixed... but like this im screwed. :P been working on this problem for 4 days now and kind of running out of options. Should mention that there was no problem with booting anything...

That was the first thing I checked when I got the first bsod, but there is no option in the bios to change the sata mode. I have worked on many computers before but never before have I had this problem of not wanting to boot from removeable media. Not even the live operating system I installed...

I am working on a friend's laptop, a compaq presario cq57, He wanted me to remove windows 7 because it was screwing up badly and replace it with windows xp pro sp3. So I went to work as usual by first wiping the hdd to get rid of win 7 so it wouldn't block the xp installation. That is where the...