chip set trend virus

[crazy4heather!!]

I have reformated my comptuer...partitioned it...and have tried formatting and instailling windows ME 3 times...and windows 2000 pro 3 times..and i still am getttin a blue screen of death when I try to log in for the frist time in window 2000 pro. i am gettina boot sector trend chipset virus potoing uo..in bold letters.....I have given up. what can i do any suggestions tips or comments will be apprecicated. I think im going got have to flash the BIOS....???? anysuggestions?

thanks

michael

[Datalore]

Flashing the BIOS won't fix anything. Your hard drive's boot sector is infected.. so it seems.

What is a boot sector virus? A boot sector virus is one that infects the first sector, i.e. the boot sector, of a floppy disk or hard drive. Boot sector viruses can also infect the MBR. The first PC virus in the wild was Brain, a boot sector virus that exhibited stealth techniques to avoid detection. Brain also changed the volume label of the disk drive.

Follow the links and guides on these three pages.

[XtremeMaC]

it might also be bc of the bios.

there is an option in the bios for enabling "check boot sector" for virus thing

if u cannot get rid of the virus I think disabling that will work...

[crazy4heather!!]

thanks i will try these. and see if they will help. I have done everything that i could think of. and the only conclusion is i need to set up my bootup again. where can i get a copy of my boot up sys? i dont have a copy of my dos programs anymore.

[Datalore]

If you have access to another computer with let's say Windows XP on it, right click the floppy drive, select format, and select "System disk" or "MS-DOS boot disk", I can't remember what the option is called But it's an obvious one. That will allow you to boot into DOS.