I'm running Vista Home Premium on a 5 year old HP Media center.
Other than this problem, the computer seems to be running good.
I'm using the latest version of Norton Internet Security.
However, I recently got an awful looking horizontal lined green screen with falling white snowy speckles after a boot-up and was completely froze-up.
I had to hold in the power button to shut down.
I then rebooted using “Last known good configuration” and everything then worked fine for a couple of days.
Then, after a couple of days, a Norton alert came up saying that it could not initialize the ‘intrusion’ segment of the program.
From there, it said that I needed to reinstall the program.
I went to the Norton site and followed the instructions on that procedure
and everything went good.
I then ran all of the updates and then ran a full system scan, and everything came up clean.
But – now I’m getting a strange sound when I boot-up.
It sounds a little like a weird kind of hollow drumbeat.
Everything seems to ‘drag’ when I first boot-up, then after about a minute the sound occurs.
Then it occurs again about a minute later, and then a third time about a minute after that.
After the third occurrence everything seems to be ‘freed-up’ and works normally.
I’ve recorded it and I hope that you can listen to it from the following link;
(Right Click, Save As . . . or maybe copy, paste into a new browser)
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Even though my Norton says I’m not infected, I’m guessing that this might be a virus or something.
So, even though I prefer not to, I’m thinking of completely ‘re-formatting’ my hard drive.
Or if not, could it be a sound card or other kind of ‘hardware' problem?
Can someone help?
With appreciation,
Charles
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