Cudadad crashed our computer, Again...HELP>>SOS Options

[T/A6Pak]

Apparently last night Dave was playing on the Cudakid's computer when suddenly it said corrupt file and the game closed down. It said " Windows/Prefetch/Dumprep.exe-1B46F901.PX is corrupt"

Then it said run scan disc. So Dave runs the scan disk then the computer will no longer work.

The black page comes up that gives you a time limit to run as normal/ in safe mode/ and a few other options, but nothing works at all.



Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

T/A6Pak

[steel]

This problem can be caused by anything from a bad power supply, hard drive, memory, etc to a virus.

Two things I can tell you. You have prefetching turned on, meaning that your computer boots programs into memory and runs them from there. Dumprep is executed when a program crashes, to collect all the info for that little box that pops up when a program crashes that asks you if you'd like to send an error report to Microsoft. The trouble comes if dumprep is trying to create this error report, but something else is also wrong... it will take up all of your cpu time trying to generate error reports. If you turned off or shut down the computer while dumprep is compiling it's report(s) then you will have created a corrupt file(s).

Do you have a recovery disk of any kind? It could be from when you installed your virus checker (they typically ask you if you want to make a rescue disk), or you could even have one that came with the computer, unless you built it yourself.

Barring a hardware failure, you most likely got a virus. If you can't boot into safe mode and then run your virus checker, and if you don't have a recovery disk, then ouch. If you don't have a computer geek that can come over and mess with it, you're probably going to have to take it to your local reputable repair shop.

Of course, there's always reformat your hard drive and re-install Windows and everything else from scratch.

Good luck with it! Sorry to hear about your troubles.