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McGraw · 12-01-2007, 11:33

Recently my Dad has been having problems with his pc.

His soundcard works (music plays etc.) and is ok in device manager but programs won't accept it's there and he has lost his volume control in software. It's a C97 onboard chip. If you go into advanced properties, all the options, e.g. midi are greyed out and show "none".

Although he has system resore points they don't work. Windows says it is unable to restore.

He also gets regular svchost.exe problems.

Apart from this, his pc is fine.

He runs AVG which I believe is up to date and has a firewall and spyware program.

Does anyone think he has a virus?

Thanks very much for any help.

12-01-2007, 11:33	#1
McGraw Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 993	svchost.exe / sondcard problems / no system restore - virus? Recently my Dad has been having problems with his pc. His soundcard works (music plays etc.) and is ok in device manager but programs won't accept it's there and he has lost his volume control in software. It's a C97 onboard chip. If you go into advanced properties, all the options, e.g. midi are greyed out and show "none". Although he has system resore points they don't work. Windows says it is unable to restore. He also gets regular svchost.exe problems. Apart from this, his pc is fine. He runs AVG which I believe is up to date and has a firewall and spyware program. Does anyone think he has a virus? Thanks very much for any help.