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Mat

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Since: Aug 16, 2003
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 12:26 pm
Post subject: Can virus stop disks to be found
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Hi,
I have a curious problem: I have to wait about 12 hours between power
off boots. I I boot eralier, bios cannot find hard drives at all.
FIrst I thought that it is about cold soldering and cooling down
issue, but is it actually time dependent?

Is there a worm which can do this? I have scanned the system with
McAfee at latest sdat level.

Regards
Mat (pinehigh@hotmail.com)

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David W. Hodgins

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 6:45 pm
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:26:38 +0300, Mat <pinehigh RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a curious problem: I have to wait about 12 hours between power
> off boots. I I boot eralier, bios cannot find hard drives at all.
> FIrst I thought that it is about cold soldering and cooling down
> issue, but is it actually time dependent?

My first guess would be a dying cmos battery.

Just in case, have you scanned your system with an up-to--date
virus scanner?

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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FromTheRafters

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:03 pm
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"Mat" <pinehigh.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:s0urjv8gu8hkgpf509ghdtdnns39kohb8m@4ax.com...
> Hi,
> I have a curious problem: I have to wait about 12 hours between power
> off boots. I I boot eralier, bios cannot find hard drives at all.
> FIrst I thought that it is about cold soldering and cooling down
> issue, but is it actually time dependent?

I think that this is a job for a bench technician.
A failing (or underpowered) power supply might do this.
Some BIOSes have an option in the CMOS setup
program to place a time delay before disk access
is attempted so as to allow a greater spinup interval.

It doesn't sound malware related to me.
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