Power Outage PWND up my PC

[Malacite]

Can anyone help?

Everythign was running fine on my PC about an hour ago when there was a sudden power-outage for about 5 minutes...

Well, after the power came back my PC has been acting all fucked up. It says OneCare had to close (and it freezes when i try to restart it) POL, iTunes and Windows Live messenger won't open either.

How the hell do I fix this? Some programs still work fine while others simply freeze (my task manager shows the .exe file is open and running but nothing appears on screen!)

[Mhurron]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

Reinstall and get a UPS.

BTW, someone has broken into mals account and is making calm, coherent posts. This should probably be looked into.

[Malacite]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

What the hell is going on?

I was trying to get One Care back up and running, following the instructions to restart the service and when the it finished it gave me an error code #1503: unable to restart service in a timely fashion bla bla bla....


Still waiting for spybot to finish checking for problems.

[Mhurron]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

What the hell is going on?

Several files were corrupted by incomplete writes.

[Malacite]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

I don't know what that means...

I found a program called ReistryBooster 2010, the freescan is showing all kinds of registry problems >.>

[Mhurron]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

It means your install is borked because there were 8-16MB of data sitting in the drives cache waiting to be saved permanently that were lost because the drive lost power. If those files were large (like the registry) chances are you have good portions of it that are now garbage because some updates were written, but others were lost.

You could spend forever and a day tracking down all the corruption and trying to repair the registry, but it is not worth it. Back your files up and reinstall.

[Queen Uma]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

Swearing is allowed in thread titles now? Seriously...

[Malacite]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

You could spend forever and a day tracking down all the corruption and trying to repair the registry, but it is not worth it. Back your files up and reinstall.

Reinstall? You mean re-format my PC?

[Mhurron]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

Yes.

[Balfree]

re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

Malacite has special permission, cuz we lov him

[Malacite]

Re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

The weird thing is, I run just about everything (including POL & MSN etc) in Safe Mode, but not in normal mode.

[Balfree]

Re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

format that shiteeee

any excuse to try out windows 7 .

[Malacite]

Re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

MALWARE REMOVAL FTMFW!

I don't know if it's just luck or whatever, but I downloaded a new malware removal program, Malwarebytes, and I guess it fixed everything


Programs are running as normal now ^ - ^ crisis averted (for now anyway).


Though, that really does strike me as bizarre that a power-out would trigger malware. WTF is that about? And Windows One Care usually picks up on this kind of nonsense and fixes it on the spot.


Well, I've never been one to question (much) good fortune so, YAY! So happy I don't have to remformat now. thanks for the support though guys.

O.O oh wow, those HP updates that always borked on me are finally downloading and installing for once ...

[Feba]

Re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

Reinstall and get a UPS.

More effective to get a large hard drive as a backup (especially if he's using a desktop with spare internal bays); provides pretty good protection from power outages if used properly (BACK YOUR SHIT UP etc.) and also can be used to treat a number of other problems (malware infections, children, pressing the wrong button, being an idiot, OS up and dying, etc.) as well. Also probably cheaper.

[Durahansolo]

Re: Power Outage PWND up my PC

I found a program called...

There are just some times when "finding" programs may or may not be a good thing.

Though, that really does strike me as bizarre that a power-out would trigger malware.

Maybe you had the malware before the power outage and then when you "Restarted" (That'd count as a incorrect shutdown I guess.) it activated on boot. MWB went in and corrected all the messed up registries, that's good.