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Computer keeps dropping internet and sound.
Burning Organ
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So last week my main hard drive shat itself and I had to reinstall everything, and everything works until I feel like playing Project Reality so I slam in my BF2 copy and start installing all the patches etc and then I install PR and ever since then I've had troubles.
Here's a few things that keeps happening:
Windows drops mixer device and sounds coming from programs won't work (Some windows sounds will work) and I need to reinstall the device
Network interface card drops the IP settings and refuse to get new ones.
My taskbar changes theme from classic to XP.
Sometimes I get a message that generic host process 32 has shut itself down and blah blah.
The most irritating one by far is the IP thing because only way to fix is reboot. I am trying now with a user defined IP address, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm running XP SP3 and Avira detected some things but I removed them and so did spybot.
Specs and hardware:
Processor:
AMD Phenom 9500 quad-core
Memory:
2gb 800mhz
Hard Drive:
1750Gb
Video Card:
Ati Radeon HD4870
Sound Card:
Realtek 7.1
Motherboard:
MSI - AM2+ 790FX Crossfire PCIE
EDIT: Having a defined IP address didn't help, it just dropped the DNS instead.
Here's a few things that keeps happening:
Windows drops mixer device and sounds coming from programs won't work (Some windows sounds will work) and I need to reinstall the device
Network interface card drops the IP settings and refuse to get new ones.
My taskbar changes theme from classic to XP.
Sometimes I get a message that generic host process 32 has shut itself down and blah blah.
The most irritating one by far is the IP thing because only way to fix is reboot. I am trying now with a user defined IP address, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm running XP SP3 and Avira detected some things but I removed them and so did spybot.
Specs and hardware:
Processor:
AMD Phenom 9500 quad-core
Memory:
2gb 800mhz
Hard Drive:
1750Gb
Video Card:
Ati Radeon HD4870
Sound Card:
Realtek 7.1
Motherboard:
MSI - AM2+ 790FX Crossfire PCIE
EDIT: Having a defined IP address didn't help, it just dropped the DNS instead.
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EDIT: Also, it's dropping IP/DNS again with the new network interface as well.
I occasionally get data execution prevention for generic host process 32 or something along those lines as well if it's relevant.
Going to download some antivirus trials.
EDIT2: Nod32 trial is now scanning everything on my computer.
I will post results later.
EDIT3: Nod32 found nothing after a complete scan.
Help
EDIT4: Also I can access computers on the same network when the DNS/IP thing happens.
EDIT5: It looks like windows might just be randomly shutting down some services for me for some reason. Any ideas?
Also I installed comodo and steam and some drivers and that's all that's in common. And chrome.
I also found out what happened. I think. Windows is shutting down the audio and DNS service, I made it so it tries to reset if it fails, but I don't know if it works yet.
It could be Conficker
Here's Microsoft's malicious software removal tool
Would be nice if this worked.
EDIT: Found nothing, but on the other hand I haven't had to reboot in eleven hours, so maybe it's working now.
Also getting some pop ups every now and then saying something about how generic system host 32 was prevented from executing data.
EDIT: If anyone can link me to a legit removal method I'd be grateful since I seem to run into more dummy sites than I thought existed.
Do you have the exact text of the error? Next time it happens, try to write it down and post it here.
Here's a removal tool to try
Although that removal tool didn't find anything, so maybe it isn't conficker or it's a new version of it.
Try going to control panel/ performance & maintinence/ system/advanced/performance settings/ data execution prevention.
Then set it to Default and see if that helps.
Also it took me a long ass time to find performance and maintenance because I like classic control panel
I haven't had any troubles in a while though, so maybe it was just some weird settings?
EDIT: It pretty much keeps doing it while I have data execution prevention on.