Sounds like either a driver-induced hang, or ram that's starting to flake out.
Walt On Aug 12, 2011 10:05 AM, "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: > My home desktop has been acting strange lately. This computer has 2 > hard drives, the original with the original Vista install, and a 2nd > that has XP installed. I boot it and run it from the XP drive. Right > before I went on vacation I noticed it seemed to be shutting off. What > it is doing when booting up it will get about half way thru then > completely power off. Turn it back on same thing. Start it is safe > mode and it starts and will run all day with no problem. So I did a > system restore and got it started in normal mode, used it for a while > and put it in stand by. Next time I went to use it as it was coming out > of stand by it shut down. So I booted it in safe mode again and once > again it would sit there and run all day. My thought was maybe it was > getting hot but that cant be it since it will shut off right when > started up so it would not be hot, and it runs all day in safe mode. So > yesterday I decided to make the vista drive the primary and booted from > it. Even booting on that drive with a completely different install it > completely shuts down when booting. I did get it started in normal > vista mode once and had internet but then later even though it said it > was connected to the internet I could never get anything to connect. > That was strange. > > So, anybody have any ideas? As I said before I thought heat at first, > but then I figured something was corrupt in the XP install. But since > it does it in both the XP and Vista install it almost seems like its > some sort of hardware issue that shuts down the whole computer. I am > probably going to move whatever is important off the vista drive over to > the xp drive and do a clean install of windows 7 on that drive and see > what happens. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
