Well, this started happening earlier. ataport.sys

Shackleford

Well, this started happening earlier. I'll restart the computer. It'll run for about two minutes then this screen shows up. I did the chkdsk earlier, but I don't think it found any errors.

Any ideas?

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n...g?t=1306447862

phinds

the ATA port is your hard drive, so this is could be a real problem. Maybe it's overheating quickly for some reason?

Shackleford

Well, I was going to vacuum the inside of the case today when this first happened, but I lost my case key! I don't know how or if I can pick the lock.

Shackleford

Well, since it was shutting down every couple of minutes, I had the bright idea of running tdsskiller to see if it could pick something up. Sure enough, it caught some kind of Rootkit malware. Fortunately, I was able to start the scan just in time and have it remedy the problem on a restart. The computer has been up and running since then. It appears that was the issue?

2ane

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All day long i had the same problem as you and googled my *** off to find a solution, i found hundreds of people describing the same troubles in (tech)forums but all they got were replies like "google your problem", "reinstall windows" and "install this obscure tool from this website that requires you to create a bootdisk", nobody even seemed to have an idea what the original problem was.

Anyways i used this Kaspersky tool, found the infection and now its running again, that makes me so happy id be willing to pay you money.

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Shackleford

Well, I do accept paypal. :P

It seems that in a lot of cases, if there's something wrong, it's malware. I, however, didn't want to hassle with all of those "solutions" online anyway.