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| DATE | 2004-08-01 |
| FROM | From: "Paul Robert Marino"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] BIOS Virus?
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Brios are crap that is why youre having problems. a BIOS virus is possible but rare and machine specific I doubt it. I have personaly only heared stories about bios viruses ive never seen one and even then the stories took place in the early 80s, always started with "my cousins fathers brothers friend had this happen once", and it was deliberatly planted in the computer they effected by a disgrunteled programer and even calling them a virus was debatable because they didnt replicate. it never made any sence to create such a thing in the first place esspecialy now that PC's are so cheep. its much more probible the hardware is broken or just bad in the first place. Im not saying a BIOS virus is imposible because it is, but its also the most improbible cause of the problem.
it is soo improbible I would never consider it as a posible cause of any problem.
"Steve Milo" wrote ..
>
> Is it possible to get a virus on a BIOS through W2K that affects everthing
> you do on the system?
>
> I tried installing Suse 9.1, I removed all the hard drives installed one
> seperate hd. Wiped it clean, and when I tried to install 9.1 it hung,
> numerous times. I checked the log screen and there was either an error
> decompressing or an inode was locked and couldnt be written to or read
> from.
>
> This machine is a Celeron with 256m of memory, hd is 6gb, it is an HP Brio
> with Pheonix BIOS. I have tried a basic install and a minimal install.
> I
> tried installing with safe mode (nodma, acpi-off, apm-off then with dma,
> acpi-
> off, apm on).
> I also reset the BIOS a few times.
>
> The manual says I should set system BIOS shadowing to off. There is no
> setting for that in this thing.
>
> Steve M
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