rogeralanb

So . . . The Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L and GA-EP45-UD3LR manual which came with my GA-EP45-UD3L board, which doesn't have raid, doesn't explain that until the foot note on the page explaining how to set up raid in the bios. I looked at the manual in the store, saw that the raid setup was the same as what I had, and assumed it would work. It does not. It is missing. I am done with Gigabyte. This is the second board that is going back.

I had tried that as one of the first things, not really knowing what it might be doing, but that it would reset the system somehow. And the delay would get shorter before it started happening. In windows at first it was a day, then a couple of hours, then a few minutes, and then immediately on boot up. Same thing with the bios, it happens as soon as I get in to the bios now whereas before i had some time. The guy at Gigabyte said yes, there is a keyboard controller and it is a piece of hardware on the board. If it is bad, then i need to finish installing this new board, which is about half way done.

I cant actually because of the problem. That is what Gigabyte tech support suggested as well, flash with the oldest v4 and then flash with the latest v9. But I cant do either and bought a replacement board. So the only question in my mind, is if it is in fact a virus, and the virus infected the bios again after it was flashed, then the problem isn't solved. But its $100 well spent since I cant spend any more time futzing with floppys which take forever to read and write. The suggestion of a bad keyboard controller well, it sounds perfect and I hope you are right. Thanks again for the suggestions.

the "enter" problem happens in the bios, without any drives or keyboards attached at all, after flashing the bios yesterday with the latest update.

I unplugged the OS and paging/scratch drives, and rebooted from the Puppy Linux, and it still happened. I could choose which version I wanted to use, but as soon as it started loading in to ram, then the scrolling started. Does it make sense that this is a strong indication that it is the controller? If it is a virus, then it could not be active without a hard drive present. Unless it reinfected the BIOS or something similiar.

OK, its happening sometimes in the BIOS and always when I reload the Linuz boot CD, which always ends in a funny colored grahics screen becasue that is the last option for the Puppu boot, choosing the screen resolution. so, now, can i assume that it is a hardware issue and maybe the keyboard controller, wherever that is? funny thing happened other day of or the day before the failure, the BIOS flash program came up when i rebooted, and there would be no reason for it to do that. I later re-flashed the bios as a precautrion, but that was the first sign that something was wrong. Would that be compatible with a bad keyboard controller? And how does one replace a bad keyboard controller? But a new MB? Dont say yes as i will have to go with SCSI 15k raid for everything. ;+) Not that i know what I'm doing. thanks for the suggestions, what next?

I tried the Puppy again, and went through the prompts just fine, time zone, etc, and then chose a video resolution, and thats when the screen started scrolling again with jagged lines. now it just reboots and doenst go in to the Puppy menu at all. What hardware is possibly infected? Its not the ram, i bought new and upgraded when i reformatted. Its not the hard drive, there sere seperate also, and its not the motherboard, i flashed the bios as part of the solution. BUT, the BIOS update dialog box did come up a day before it started having problems, on Gigabyte its called X-Bios or something, and it asked me for a disk to flash the bios. This also was very strange as there would be no reason for it to come up unless it was copromised.

I started from the puppy linux just fine error message: cannot find tocblock . . . and then loading stuff in to ram i looked away for a sec and when i looked back the screen was scrolling vertically very fast and now it is a pretty design of green and yellow diagonal designs. so, that means it is a hard ware issue? What next? in the meantime i will try the other linux versions just to see what happens . . .

you mean you think the virus is embedded in the firmware of a piece of hardware? I am going to try the Linux boot thing and see what happens.

It has been suggested that the virus is in the MBR so that it is active whenever windows is active. So yes, i did press F8 to get the startup options, and when it came to the screen with the options, including safe mode, of course Start Windows Normally is highlighted, and that screen disappears immediately which tells me that the "enter" is active at that point and I can't choose safe mode. i am scanning this, my main computer, whcih is not infected, with Malwarebytes, as i really need to re-connect the other infected hard drive to retrieve some info off of it, but dont want to infect my other computers, if it is capbalbe of that

keeps repeating the "enter' command even when the keyboard is not attached. pretty much makes the computer unusable. funny thing is that after it happened the first time, i reformatted the drive, used different drives, used a different OS, and after I had installed and updated all of my programs, there it is again. Kaspersky cant find it and now the second install is unusable, it starts happening sooner and sooner after bootup and then the computer becomes unusable at all. This is very strange that it would happen on the same computer, so soon after reformat. Has anyone heard of this at all? Seems very strange, I know how to avoid viruses and haven't had any in years and years. Windows 7/64 any help? thanks . . .