I know this is in the wrong forum, but mods please let it ride for a couple of hours - thank you

Okay chaps, the major probs I been having with this hi jack shit on my PC which I thought I had quashed just came back with a vengence and I haven't the patience to go through all this again... so.....

How do I wipe and re-format my harddrive, and go abotu re-installing windows (98SE)

I got two CD's here and a floppy ( ) disk... WTF do I do?

 

Anyone?

 

shit matt, i completely forgot to goto post office

will go tomorrow - i PROMISE

 

No worries Paul, cheers pal

Just rang Jim cos he knows about these things, and he says turn off PC, turn on with the 98SE boot disk, type in FDISK then DELETE PARTITIONS, then shut down again and boot up from the 98SE install CD.....

 

this may help

http://www.faqfarm.com/Computer/Windows/45472

 

Right, I'm back, freshly installed version of 98SE

Now, got probs already

My display is stuck on 640x480 res and it won't let me change the thing to 1280 res Also it only has the option to view in 2 colour modes ''2 Color'' and ''16 Color''

Why cannot I not change to 1280 res and 24million colours or whatever it used to be?????

Also, it asks me to login now every time I boot up - never used to do that

 

can everyone please go into the Contributors room and read thrush's post

from the top on my head its something to do with his dislike of posting threads in the wrong room

 

you need to install the proper graphics card drivers

f you dont know what card it is... open up the case and see what's written on the card :Cry:

 

No Graphics drivers installed for ya graphics card, need to find the make and download them. Its just running in the colours it can display.

 

Shit.... How the fook do I do that then? Thought I had on board sound and graffix?

Also I got no proper prgrammes like word, excell, etc...

Re-installing

 

I got no fooking sound either

 

bet you wish you left alone now

 

Yes

In a way yes, but hopefully now I won't have the major problems I was having with all this hi jacker virus spyware shit

Just wish I could get my settings back Cos it is on board sound an graffix, I didn't realise I would need to save the drivers before reformatting.... Fook knows how I get sound and graffix shit to work again

 

To put word back in, u will need microsoft office, which is a seprate program from Windows. As for you audio, you will need drivers for that too, if you put Win XP in it would 99% set everything up, as Win 98 doesn't have drivers for everything.
You got any CD's with the computer?


If everthings onboard, have i got a CD for the Motherboard with all the drivers on?

 

check da shit

 

could you not go through your programme files an find the spyware hijackers shit.
or even in start go to run and type msconfig this will tell you what the computer runs when you boot your system up as this is where you think mmm
what the fuck is my computer running that for what the fuck is that name there "mr hacky" after you stop these from taking all your ram up your system will be a lot quicker from startup as you are not utilising so much ram running programmes that arent supposed to be running

 

i cant believe you formatted your computer when you dont even know what drivers do. madness

 

Been there pal, done all that..... Spent 8 days on it now - and it ain't as simple as what you said.

The hi jack programme that installed itself is probably one of the toughest to remove and you have to go through each line of code on the reg files, scan and or remove them. YOu need to do a lot of REGEDIT's (not clever if you don't know what your doing) and a load of complex shit I ain't ogt a clue about.

I did everything I was advised to by the pro's and it is still embedded in my system - only one way out of that - wipe EVERYTHING and start again

Anyway, back to topic - any one know how I find out what the onboard sound and graffix shit is so I can download the drivers and get this thing on it's way again please?

 

Monkey - I know what drivers do, but no one told me they wouldn't be there when I re-installed

 

Find out the model of your board and download the drivers should be an installer etc come with it

To find out the model of your board open up the pc and look between the pci slots there should be a model number put that into google an after abit of searching you should find it

Or you could run diognostic software to find it out

good luck

 

You need to know the make of the devices, ie- motherboard, graphics, sound, of course if its all on board, u just need to know the make of the main board.

 

Mikey - only discs I got for installation are : Win98SE software disk, a floppy Windows boot disk, and a Windows 98 SE "Microsoft Press" disk...

I thought they'd be on the "Microsoft Press disk, but apparently not

 

lol you'll have to find out the board then like I said above you sure you got all the disks that came with the pc? or is it one of them time or tiny pc's

 

You could try putting the 98SE software disk in and get windows to search the disk for the standard .INF files to get the devices working, but it should have put these in.

 

to technical for me now past my helpfullness

 

Dude - whats with all the " " ??????

 

Matt try typing DXDIAG into the "run" command.

Not sure if that tells you the motherboard but worth a try for sound and vision

If that don't work this EVEREST program will tell you it


http://www.lavalys.com/products/down...dlid=1&lang=en

 

Nice one Nuts - both worked, now I just gotta work out what it is I need to do with em

 

in everest menu click motherboard.

the right hand side of the screen will give you all the info about the make and model of your mobo.

It should also put a link to their site where you can download all the drivers, bios updates etc etc

 

The hi jack programme that installed itself is probably one of the toughest to remove and you have to go through each line of code on the reg files, scan and or remove them. YOu need to do a lot of REGEDIT's

 

i say just put XP on it. it'll have all the driers by default and save you SOOOOOO much time

 

Jim - I ain't got a copy of XP, which is why I just whacked 98 back on (cos I have a disk for that)

White Cab - what exactly is your fucking problem you cock? Have you actually got anything helpfull to say or not? No? thought not - now fuck off

 

it working proper now?

 

Thanks to Rus, my display is now back to normal (supplied me with a link to download a driver) and I am just about to finish downloading the driver for the audio

Top Man is Rus - thanks mate your a star

 

Still can't get audio drivers sorted

And I just tried to re-install my MMC/SM/CF etc card reader (plug in USB type) and installation said succesfull, but the extra drive location icons don't show up in "MY COMPUTER" like they should????????? USB ports appear to be working fine as the lights come on and the card reader reads the card I put into it, but I can't access any cards (or the built in flash memory) as I got no drive letter icons to click open

 

have you done the windows updates yet?? may find that there is summit that will sort it there..

 

Done about three

 

Thrush, did you install the drivers before plugging the usb thingy ? And the audio drivers should be on your motherboard cd

 

Got the audio drivers from a CD I found that said something about Chipset drivers, and luckily they had audio drivers so thats all cool

I did install the card reader drivers from the provided CD that came with it, but once installed it should show three extra drive locations in the "My Computer" folder but it don't It shows that the reader is installed in "Add Remove/Programmes" tho

 

You got any thing that your left with which is not working Thrush.