Since it runs OK in safe mode it sounds like it might be hardware that's getting flakey, but not activating in safe mode. If in safe mode without networking it's OK, it might be the network card. If it is OK in safe mode with networking but not in normal boot then I'd look more at the video card.
Try booting a "LiveCD" such as Knoppix and see if everything works OK there. If so then you might have a driver that's gotten corrupted, though since you experience the same problems booting from two separate drives and two different versions of Windows, I would think it's not a driver issue. Allan "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> writes: > 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 > -- 1983 300D _______________________________________ 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
