HELP! Friends PC Possible Virus

factory100023

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Jun 13, 2015
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So i was Just Gaming, playing CS:GO w/my friend. He sits next to me. He has a chrome tab open and he's on fb and suddenly he clicks on some link and it downloads something. It then RUNS ITSELF and disconnects from the internet and closes all the programs, then his CPU cooler shuts off and his video card fan shuts off (R7 260x) . Hard drive still working but Video Card and CPU Shut themselves off and there is a burnt plastic smells from the PC.

CPU is X4 860k

Please help, how can he get rid of the virus or whatever happened and re-use his hard drive? how to tell if he can use any other component?
 

Loke508

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Oct 17, 2015
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This scenario seems very unlikely as the bios generally prevents fans from stopping completely, but if this really is what happend then I am happy to tell you that all parts except the hard drive should be reusable, just trash the motherboard if it defaulted to allowing such virus to stop fans. If he disabled the protection himself it would be his own fault. Such an unsecure bios shouldn't be in any motherboard.

Whoops, reread your post. I think you could reset your hard drive through safe mode or something like that, although i am not sure if it is a bios virus or windows virus, probably both and if it has got into the bios you are left with no option but ditching the hard drive.