Can pj64 break my computer?

[Rockstead]

I dogownloaded pj64 and the rom banjokazooi a week ago and played it for about 5 hours - everything seemed ok, then I turned the computer off and when I went to turn it back on again, while booting up it said "verifying DMI pool" and then "invalid system disk, replace disk and press enter". There was no disk in my computer though. I waqs just wondering if it had anything to do with my computer being very slow (500mhz, 64mb) and pj64 was taking up too much memory or something?
banjo was running ok - it wasnt even that slow... is it possible to get a virus from a rom? because all I downloaded that night was the rom and pj64.

 

[sya64]

Mine was OK!

 

[Slougi]

Well, I am 100% sure it was not PJ64. Apparently the boot sector of your HDD has become corrupted somehow, but don't ask me what caused it. But I can assure you that it was not PJ64. You might want to tr reinstalling windows.

 

[Rockstead]

ok thanks - ill try running the same rom wif pj64 again - i reformatted my hard drive so that fixed the problem - cept for losing everytrhin on my hard drive.

 

[Slougi]

Yes, reformatting hurts I lost all my roms once due to that

 

[Doomulation]

You probably got a virus or somethin'. You should be more careful when downloading things. And use an anti-virus software!
Must make sure there aren't any virus in the roms

 

[Slougi]

There can be no viruses in the rom :sleepy:
In the zip maybe, but no in the rom itself.

 

[sya64]

if u AFRAID that ur roms GoNE!
try burn the CD-R first!!

is it OK??

 

[Parn]

You should always have more than one partitions on your hard drive and one of them must be using FAT32. Then you keep all your ROMs in the non-system partition.

 

[Davemc]

thats what i do

i have a whole partition for my emulation stuff

 

[EdgeBlade]

You should always have more than one partitions on your hard drive and one of them must be using FAT32...

um... Why?

 

[Parn]

If you have FAT32 partition, then you can access it with a DOS boot disk.

 

[EdgeBlade]

But I can make a boot disk with winXP to get into dos, I can also use a 98 startupdisk if needed

 

[Malcolm]

i have 3 partitions, my win2k one, my linux-mandrake one and a sharing drive that both windows and linux has access too

 

[Witten]

You can also use a bootable Norton Utilities CD and try to fix the bootsector

 

[whatboy]

Sometimes with a FDISK /MBR, Fdisk will repair the boot... But Allways BackUP!!!

 

[whatboy]

Oh... and another thing... Can PJ64 break my computer?, Well I had a RADEON 7200 and I think It burn due to too much time playing... but I just stick 3 more fans... lets see what happens...

 

[Doomulation]

There can be no viruses in the rom :sleepy:
In the zip maybe, but no in the rom itself.

Slougi...
The last one was a joke.

Why would anyone make a virus for roms anyway? They'd go for the executables, like the emulator.