Warez Monster said:I didnt put and updates on it the seconds time and it still happened
I used my personal XP cd, the companies, and now HP's cd
that's exactly what happen 3-4 years ago. everytime you reformated the problem stayed because they put something in the boot sector that would not go away. so as soon as you reinstall windows it would look fine for a momonet, but the longer you messed with it, the more goofy stuff would happen
back then we would have to take the hdd out of the machine and slave it to another computer and use partition magic secure data erase feature (which took a long time to do) to fix the hdd so that the problem would disappear.
powermax speeded that process up considerably