lilo annoying virus

[crashy]

hello :)
everytime i load lilo.. an annoying sound and.. red box appears saying there is a virus..
i've reinstalled everything over 20 times and it still says this..

how on earth can i get rid of this?

<3
crashy

[Cloak|56k]

His Virus Detection On in your bios?

Maybe thats your problem!

[sledge_hmr]

I had a similar problem. I have a Maxtor 40G hard drive and unfortunately my ASUS P5-A motherboard's is unable to support it. So I have set the hard disk to act like a 33G drive. Apparently Maxtor has something called EZ-Bios on the hard disk. Everytime I would boot up, I would get a "boot visus detected" message in a red box with yellow type along with some God-awful beeps. I got around this problem disabling the EZ-Bios on the hard disk using Maxtor's MaxBlastPlus software. If you have a Maxtor hard disk set similiarly, then this should fix the problem.

sledge_hmr

[Cloak|56k]

Do better, repartition your drive and remove the ez-bios from the drive. I also have a maxtor drive 40 Gig and had no problem.

[sledge_hmr]

How did you remove EZ-Bios entirely? I repartitioned my hard disk serveral times and still got the "boot virus" warning. It was only until after I disabled EZ-Bios that the damn thing went away.

[Cloak|56k]

When i bought the drive it didn't have any partition on it and ez-crap was on a floppy.

Was it pre-installed on yours?

[Crewchief]

I have used tons of maxtor drives and have yet to see one come with ez-bios on it from the factory. ez-bios is for old bios's that don't support lba. Sounds like you virus protection turned on in the mobo's bios. If you want I can give you a dos script that will surley blow EVERYTHING off the drive including mbr, partition and format info. Actually here it is...

Solution

NOTICE: This debug script is for advanced users only. Its purpose is to remove all formatting and partitioning information from your hard disk when FDISK is unable to do so. THIS WILL ALSO REMOVE ALL DATA AND PROGRAMS FROM THE DRIVE. REPEAT: The next steps will remove all data from hard-disk drive. We URGE YOU to make a backup of any data and programs that you wish to save before proceeding. REMEMBER: ALL DATA WILL BE LOST! Be sure you have the necessary bootable media and files to reboot your system and install your operating system (boot disk with CDROM drivers, MSCDEX, FDISK, FORMAT, SYS, etc).*Turn on the computer.Insert your boot diskette that contains the Debug command, or in Windows 95, 98, or Me use the Startup options to boot to Command Prompt Only. At the DOS command prompt, type the following commands and press the <Enter> key after each command:

NOTICE: Performing the following will remove all data from your hard disk drive.

NOTE: Type the following bolded text only. You will receive an error if you type anything other than the bold text. The non-bolded text represents*the system response that will appear on your screen once you press <Enter> after typing each command.

debug <Enter>
-F 200 L1000 0 <Enter>
-A CS:100 <Enter>
MOV AX,301 <Enter>
MOV BX,200 <Enter>
MOV CX,1 <Enter>
MOV DX,80 <Enter>*(Type*80 for the main hard drive - hd 0, or type 81 for the second hard drive - hd 1)
INT 13 <Enter>
INT 20 <Enter>
<Enter>
-G <Enter>

The message Program terminated normally appears. Turn off the computer.On the next startup the hard drive must be partitioned and formatted.
Type this in exactly. You will see some characters in front of the MOV and INT commands. this is normal
[ 09 July 2001: Message edited by: Crewchief ]

[ 09 July 2001: Message edited by: Crewchief ]