hi there hope u can help, im using vista on an acer5315 lappy and about a week ago it intermittently shut down every day or so
Just a quick flash of BSOD and straight to reboot until the other day it wouldnt boot in normal mode so I booted in safe mode
So i eventually got sick of this and investigated, deleted a few progs(more or less unused ones)and updated and ran my antivurus(avast home) and it got stuck-like just stalled-in sys32

I suspected either a virus or a corupted reg or something(im no expert)

i ran a couple of anti spywares and they seemed to get stuck in same spot

the particular file was the NTIO404.SYS one


heres alist of sys 32

Volume in drive C is ACER
Volume Serial Number is D84B-8B3B

Directory of C:\Windows\system32

11/02/2006 08:09 AM 9,029 ANSI.SYS
01/19/2008 08:42 AM 247,352 clfs.sys
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 27,097 country.sys
04/03/1996 08:33 PM 5,248 giveio.sys
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 4,768 HIMEM.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 42,809 KEY01.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 42,537 KEYBOARD.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 27,866 NTDOS.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 29,146 NTDOS404.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 29,370 NTDOS411.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 29,274 NTDOS412.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 29,146 NTDOS804.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 33,952 NTIO.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 34,672 NTIO404.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 35,776 NTIO411.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 35,536 NTIO412.SYS
11/02/2006 08:09 AM 34,672 NTIO804.SYS
09/24/2006 02:28 PM 5,248 speedfan.sys
02/09/2009 04:10 AM 2,033,152 win32k.sys
02/15/2009 09:03 PM 1,152 windrv.sys
20 File(s) 2,737,802 bytes

Directory of C:\Users\\Desktop

ill give any more info yhat u want but i thought that might start the ball rolling

Im sick to death of it at this stage and Im thinnking strongly of re installing vista (or 7)

Anyway it would be great if you could help

Ta
jesijoe

There is a strong possibility that you have been infected by a root kit foob which attaches to this system and creates some new registry keys and then denies you permissions to change or delete them.

I would go ahead and reformat and reinstall after saving what data files you can .

ta for ur prompt reply i think thats what i will do -might b best all round,
if i could bend ur ear a little further thanks,
1, can running in safe mode for an extended period do any permanent physical damage to drives or ram or anything?
2, whats ur opinion of win 7?
once again thanks
jesijoe

1) to be honest I really don't know this answer. I would assume that no that it would not as all safe mode does is stops a lot of the eye candy (non essential components) and installed applications from loading at start up The core components run ok

I have been running windows 7 on a test machine for a few months and really like the system. There are still a couple of glitches that pop up from time to time. Overall it is fairly stable and fast.