Any Ideas On Cause Of Issue BSOD (error writing to C drive) Win98 Se

I have no idea why this error occurs or how to solve it, I am not much of a windows techie... This is a friends puter, the main issue is she's in the UK and I am in Belgium. So I can't really get "hands-on" information. I too have to go by what I get.System Tech :Win 98 Se (temp solution due to previous issues)AVG Antivirus, Sygate Firewall, Ad aware and Spybot installedRecent hardware, new HD (40GB), new RAM (256MB) The issue started a while back, while the system was still running Win XP Home. AVG 7 Pro prompted about a virus, it would be deleted, but after a reboot (or just shut down and boot up the next day ) it would return. While trying to delete the virus with AVG, scans on Adaware also had issues. Soon after these issues, the pc seemed to have "lost" it's internet connection. For some odd reason, the technicians of my friends ISP told her the pc had lost it's IP address and she had to reinstall windows. Luckely she listened to myself and D (another friend living close to the friend with the pc issue) and didn't reinstall just yet. However, the next day the pc had stopped working all together, it gave an error of not being able to find a drive at all. So they reinstalled, the "no internet" issue was still present. After a lot of reformats, reinstalls, my friend chose to buy new memory (on the advice of the ISP technicians), which didn't help. Then she went out and got herself a new HD, which got reformated, and fitted with Win 98 SE on SOMEONE ELSES pc (so the hardware config of that pc, which was different from my friends pc). Now she is back online (in the end it turned out that her ADSL modem was broken, which was the cause of the "no ip, no internet" issue. She still had multiple issues, under which one with a scrap file (file with .shs extension) hidden behind her recycle bin. The file got deleted, which seemed to end that issue. At this point the only problem is not working sound (for which she intends to buy a new graphics????? card... I told her that graphics and sound is not related.. but I had to give up after a discussion about this for over an hour)Just a few hours ago, she tells me about a new problem (at this point, I have had it with her pc - and feel like telling her to take the thing to a decent hardware store and a few other things I can not type here )... She gets a Blue Screen of Death, telling here there is an error, that the pc can not write to C drive. It pops up and goes away again. And it seems to keep on returning. My friend went quiet in chat, so I think it is safe for me to assume her puter went nuts on her and it's not working LOL. Personally I think the issue is spyware/virus etc related. I don't know HOW she gets it though. Last night I talked her through installing Sygate Firewall - she has AVG Pro, Adaware and Spybot. And I just don't know anymore, I am absolutely at my wits end with her pc... Any suggestions that don't involve what I really wanna do?? (go over there, throw that pc out of the window, bang the womans head into the wall for letting her 9 yr old play and surf the net without supervision and downloading all she/he/they can find)P.S. This is written in a state of severe frustration and aggrivation, I apologize for typos, bad grammar and/or spelling.

Sounds like more than one problem brewing here. This can be due to a MB failure or cpu failure also. The computer may have a virus on thevBIOS chip. This could happen with XPH and a M$ rootkit. If there is a virus on the BIOS chip the computer is scrap... we call it a boat anchor here :)bsod can be cause by HW failure and it may look like a software failure. You said her aDSL modem was fried, did it get hit by lightning? or did it get infected with a virus? Lightning can fry the aDSL modem and if hard wired to the computer with a cat5 cable can fry computer components there also. New graphics card may be needed, not for the sound but for the monitor.. :)She should bring it to a reputable repair shop so they can put it on a scope to see if there are any loose or burned out electronics. They can see if the power supply is bad or if there are burned out / broken parts in the computer.Tell your friend to sign on here and we'll work with her fixing it.Nils

Sounds like more than one problem brewing here. This can be due to a MB failure or cpu failure also. The computer may have a virus on thevBIOS chip. This could happen with XPH and a M$ rootkit. If there is a virus on the BIOS chip the computer is scrap... we call it a boat anchor here

 

Tell your friend to sign on here and we'll work with her fixing it.

 

Nils

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I'll try to get her to register here, although knowing her, I'd prefer D to register here, she learned to not dive in and start tweaking settings without knowing what they do (mind you, I learned that the hard way too LOL - ever made your laptop say "there's no CD ROM drive, and then try to reinstall the drivers and get asked to insert the DISK?? LOL)

And I have to admit it, I hadn't even thought about an infected BIOS or rootkit... *starts to bang her head on the desk* But there is no way I am going to even try to explain all this to her, it would be the same as explaining this to my 4 yr old sister So I will tell her to get the puter to a decent HW shop and get it tested.

If it is a MB of CPU failure, then it would happen in a curve right? (sorry for the lack of ability to explain this, my English is pretty good, but sometimes still inadequate ) You've certainly given me some new leads to look into thank you

Hhmmm .. Looks like another PSKAC issue ::Problem Sits Between Keyboard And Chair:)