cme2529

I am having the same exact problem as duckz and I can assure you all it is NOT a hardware issue. I have a quad-core with 8GB of RAM and a 1GB ATI graphics card. I normally run 200+ mods and have never had a screen crash like this or even as much as a persistent CTD issue. I started experiencing the issue sometime late last week after Steam automatically loaded some update to Skyrim. I was playing late at night and had to shutdown my game for a while. When I returned to my game, I noticed the auto-update downloading on Skyrim under my Steam Library tab. Once completed, I started Skyrim and BOOSH my monitor shuts down, reads "NO SIGNAL" and the background music in Skyrim starts skipping like crazy. I have disabled every single mod I have and started a new game and still get the black screen of death. I have deleted all left-over scripts from uninstalled mods, replaced the necessary modded scripts with the originals I backed up, I have completely disabled and deleted ENB and corrected the .ini settings... I have tried everything I can think of, short of uninstalling Skyrim and then reinstalling... *UPDATE* Well, I completely uninstalled Skyrim and then reinstalled... so far no black screen crash and I'm running about 100 mods still. When all else fails, tear it down and start again :)

All this complaining about the new Skyrim site reminds me of the recent format change here at TESnexus. At first I was upset, but after a week or so I got used to it and actually like it better now than the previous format. Dark0ne has done an excellent job maintaining the Nexus sites thus far and I'm confident he knows what he's doing. My point is, we shouldn't form an opinion about SkyrimNexus until it's actually hosting mods.

Thanks everyone for answering my membership question. That's awesome news to hear, although with the mountain of extra game content TESnexus modders have provided for Oblivion, I would pay for premium membership again if I had to. I mean c'mon, it was less than $100 and it supplied me with years of entertainment. I'd say it's well worth its value!

Hey Dark0ne, I have a question; does Skyrim Nexus exist completely independent of TESnexus? In other words, do I have to pay for a completely new premium membership or does my TESnexus one carry over to it?

Heya CME, I hope this info helps. Review this for a list of what my logs popped up: http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/240888-nexus-trojanvirus-alert/page__view__findpost__p__2146374 I would suggest downloading and running Malwarebytes since it turned up and fixed the rootkit. I would also suggest downloading and running the Norton Tidserv HTTPS exploit scan and fix. ( It can't hurt to try it. ) Also if you haven't run Microsoft update in some time you can sometimes "wash" a corrupted system by running a major patch. ( it moves system drivers and so forth to a patch uninstall directory after its done and sometimes a "stealth program" will turn up there on a scan after the patching ). If your not running a 100% legal copy of windows you probably don't want to try the patching route. Also, its wise to keep multiple anti-virus packages/anti-malware/anti-spyware packages on hand. You don't need to have them all active but scans from different packages will sometimes turn up things others missed. P.S. About 6 months ago my Sysadmin groups was tasked with evaluating a enterprise anti-virus solution ( the license on our current was expiring). We scowered hacker sites and compiled a CD composed of close 500 different viruses ( in both uncompressed and compressed formats ) and then ran each of the virus scanners we were evaluating against it. The best ones were averaging in the 90 to 95 percent range but none of the them found all of them and each of them found a few that none of the others did. ( Keep in mind this was evaluating a enterprise solution and not a home user version so the playing field was very different ) Thanks for the info. I am running a completely legal version of Windows, but this problem keeps me from accessing Windows updates/patches as well as using any system restore points. I'm going to go over all this new info from everyone and see if anything works. Thanks again for all your help. It's great to have such a helpful community when times get tough.

Please beware everyone! I was one of the unfortunate ones to get attacked by this $&*#ing trojan (even with registered AVG installed) and it's a PAIN to fix. I've spent a good 8 hours working on the problem and although an entire system scan results in no virus found, I still have very limited access and if online too long, my pc will lock up (due to a highjacking I'm guessing) and one of my "svchost.exe" processes starts eating up my cpu memory like crazy. If anyone out there knows of a fix for this recent attack, PLEASE message me and let me know! I really don't want to re-format my 1TB drive... (>_<)