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Gateway500 factory Settings
Hi. Please can anyone advise on how to reset PC to factory settings.
Thank you Hicksey |
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Hicksey proclaimed:
Hi. Please can anyone advise on how to reset PC to factory settings. Thank you Hicksey What is it you are trying to restore? You can get to the BIOS setup on most by hitting F1 at power on.... a few used F2. If you need to restore the flash bios, what OS are you using and do you have a recovery disk? [methods available on the gateway support site] |
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I have an access denial virus which is proving impossible to get rid of so
wondered if going back to factory settings would solve the problem Hicksey "Lon" wrote in message . .. Hicksey proclaimed: Hi. Please can anyone advise on how to reset PC to factory settings. Thank you Hicksey What is it you are trying to restore? You can get to the BIOS setup on most by hitting F1 at power on.... a few used F2. If you need to restore the flash bios, what OS are you using and do you have a recovery disk? [methods available on the gateway support site] |
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What you need is to use your recovery disk to completely format the hard drive and install your operating system if you can't get rid of it. What have you tried so far? Any of the Microsoft Malware tools help? McAfee Stinger? Or is it so far gone you can't connect to their websites? Hicksey proclaimed: I have an access denial virus which is proving impossible to get rid of so wondered if going back to factory settings would solve the problem Hicksey "Lon" wrote in message . .. Hicksey proclaimed: Hi. Please can anyone advise on how to reset PC to factory settings. Thank you Hicksey What is it you are trying to restore? You can get to the BIOS setup on most by hitting F1 at power on.... a few used F2. If you need to restore the flash bios, what OS are you using and do you have a recovery disk? [methods available on the gateway support site] |
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A total format will lose to much stuff so I will try the malware progs first. It wont connect to internet so I will get them on disc to try. Hicksey "Lon" wrote in message . .. What you need is to use your recovery disk to completely format the hard drive and install your operating system if you can't get rid of it. What have you tried so far? Any of the Microsoft Malware tools help? McAfee Stinger? Or is it so far gone you can't connect to their websites? Hicksey proclaimed: I have an access denial virus which is proving impossible to get rid of so wondered if going back to factory settings would solve the problem Hicksey "Lon" wrote in message . .. Hicksey proclaimed: Hi. Please can anyone advise on how to reset PC to factory settings. Thank you Hicksey What is it you are trying to restore? You can get to the BIOS setup on most by hitting F1 at power on.... a few used F2. If you need to restore the flash bios, what OS are you using and do you have a recovery disk? [methods available on the gateway support site] |
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Access to the internet from another computer with a CD burner is absolutely
necessary to nail the problem you are seeing. Do the following: 1. Download Spybot and, separately, all of its updates. 2. Download Ad-Aware and, separately, all of its updates. 3. Determine the exact name of the virus infecting your system, and see if one of the anti-virus companies (Symantec, Trend, etc.) has a simple tool to remove the single virus. If so, download it. 4. Download Grisoft's FreeAVG and all updates, if you do not have absolutely up-to-date virus protection on the infected system. 5. Burn all this stuff onto a CD. 6. Make sure that the infected computer is NOT connected to the internet. 7. Run a simple virus tool, if any. 8. Install Spybot and Ad-Aware, apply all updates to them, and run, removing everything they identify. 9. Install FreeAVG and its updates, and run. You may need to boot the system in safe mode to get some of these software tools to run... Ben Myers On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:08:46 GMT, "Hicksey" wrote: A total format will lose to much stuff so I will try the malware progs first. It wont connect to internet so I will get them on disc to try. Hicksey "Lon" wrote in message ... What you need is to use your recovery disk to completely format the hard drive and install your operating system if you can't get rid of it. What have you tried so far? Any of the Microsoft Malware tools help? McAfee Stinger? Or is it so far gone you can't connect to their websites? Hicksey proclaimed: I have an access denial virus which is proving impossible to get rid of so wondered if going back to factory settings would solve the problem Hicksey "Lon" wrote in message . .. Hicksey proclaimed: Hi. Please can anyone advise on how to reset PC to factory settings. Thank you Hicksey What is it you are trying to restore? You can get to the BIOS setup on most by hitting F1 at power on.... a few used F2. If you need to restore the flash bios, what OS are you using and do you have a recovery disk? [methods available on the gateway support site] |
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Hicksey wrote: A total format will lose to much stuff so I will try the malware progs first. It wont connect to internet so I will get them on disc to try. Hicksey Hmmm. You might want to send it to a small computer local shop that specializes in virus removal. Make clear that you don't want to nuke and pave (this is the easiest and best method). Or specify what you want to save. Here's the thing, virus damage often presists even after successful virus removal. Think of it as smallpox scars. |
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If the data on your computer is of some value to you, get professional help.
Seriously. For the computer, that is... Ben Myers On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:51:15 GMT, "Hicksey" wrote: I have an access denial virus which is proving impossible to get rid of so wondered if going back to factory settings would solve the problem Hicksey "Lon" wrote in message ... Hicksey proclaimed: Hi. Please can anyone advise on how to reset PC to factory settings. Thank you Hicksey What is it you are trying to restore? You can get to the BIOS setup on most by hitting F1 at power on.... a few used F2. If you need to restore the flash bios, what OS are you using and do you have a recovery disk? [methods available on the gateway support site] |
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