Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
know of a good free program I can download that will test the ram? On 8/12/2011 9:06 AM, Walt Zarnoch wrote: 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. Striplinka...@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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
There's memtest x86, you can find it as a downloadable CD. Walt On Aug 12, 2011 10:08 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: know of a good free program I can download that will test the ram? On 8/12/2011 9:06 AM, Walt Zarnoch wrote: 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. Striplinka...@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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
Hardware problem. Start with memory-that is the most likely culprit. Even removing and reseating it can do the trick. When I started doing more workstation stuff I was amazed at how many issued are caused by memory... Dan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2011, at 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
I had that problem when the vid card was going flaky. Replaced it and no more problems (twice actually). It was a bunch of blown capacitors on the board, when it got hot they quit capacitating. But only in regular mode, in safe mode it seemed to work which was kinda odd, maybe it was not putting as much processing load on the vid board? Could also be some other things, including a similar problem on the mobo (I have had that happen too), esp in the summer when it is warmer. --R On 8/12/11 10:05 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes: I had that problem when the vid card was going flaky. Replaced it and no more problems (twice actually). It was a bunch of blown capacitors on the board, when it got hot they quit capacitating. But only in regular mode, in safe mode it seemed to work which was kinda odd, maybe it was not putting as much processing load on the vid board? Safe mode uses a very low-level video mode (640x480?) and like 16 or 256 colors, which probably does bypass much circuitry on the video card. Allan -- 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
Sounds like your memory controller is hosed. nbsp;I'll give you $50 for that hunk of junk :) Luther nbsp; Aug 12, 2011 9:05 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin lt;ka...@striplin.netgt; wrote:nbsp; 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
It does. Unless the video card is toast, it will probably work OK in the lowest resolutions. Dan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes: I had that problem when the vid card was going flaky. Replaced it and no more problems (twice actually). It was a bunch of blown capacitors on the board, when it got hot they quit capacitating. But only in regular mode, in safe mode it seemed to work which was kinda odd, maybe it was not putting as much processing load on the vid board? Safe mode uses a very low-level video mode (640x480?) and like 16 or 256 colors, which probably does bypass much circuitry on the video card. Allan -- 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
If it's the vid card I believe it's built onto the mb Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes: I had that problem when the vid card was going flaky. Replaced it and no more problems (twice actually). It was a bunch of blown capacitors on the board, when it got hot they quit capacitating. But only in regular mode, in safe mode it seemed to work which was kinda odd, maybe it was not putting as much processing load on the vid board? Safe mode uses a very low-level video mode (640x480?) and like 16 or 256 colors, which probably does bypass much circuitry on the video card. Allan -- 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
If memory reseat doesnt work. try using one stick at a time. If that doesnt solve the problem its probably your power supply. Safe mode requires the least amount of power. PS checkers are pretty cheap... -Rolf On 08/12/2011 10:49 AM, Dan Penoff wrote: It does. Unless the video card is toast, it will probably work OK in the lowest resolutions. Dan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Allan Streibstr...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Rich Thomasrichthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes: I had that problem when the vid card was going flaky. Replaced it and no more problems (twice actually). It was a bunch of blown capacitors on the board, when it got hot they quit capacitating. But only in regular mode, in safe mode it seemed to work which was kinda odd, maybe it was not putting as much processing load on the vid board? Safe mode uses a very low-level video mode (640x480?) and like 16 or 256 colors, which probably does bypass much circuitry on the video card. Allan -- 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:08:28 -0500 Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: know of a good free program I can download that will test the ram? Get Memtest86+ from http://www.memtest.org/. It's an improved version of memtest86. Craig ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
Currently having the same issues with a Win 7 computer. It started following an update of the latest windows critical update hasn't been right since, blue screen, crashes, it even now tells me my issue of windows is not valid. [guess the last 2 years and a sales receipt were updated?] I find in situations such as this my favorite tool is a 10 pound sledge hammer and all the expletives I learned in the army. Reformat and reload, I think. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com wrote: Hardware problem. Start with memory-that is the most likely culprit. Even removing and reseating it can do the trick. When I started doing more workstation stuff I was amazed at how many issued are caused by memory... Dan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2011, at 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
Buy a Mac. They haven't authenticated licensing for years. With the latest OS, you don't even have to have the physical media. Windows 7 only makes it worse. We are migrating to Windows 7 at work, and if we didn't have a licensing server, it would be a nightmare. MacDan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, G Mann g2ma...@gmail.com wrote: Currently having the same issues with a Win 7 computer. It started following an update of the latest windows critical update hasn't been right since, blue screen, crashes, it even now tells me my issue of windows is not valid. [guess the last 2 years and a sales receipt were updated?] I find in situations such as this my favorite tool is a 10 pound sledge hammer and all the expletives I learned in the army. Reformat and reload, I think. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com wrote: Hardware problem. Start with memory-that is the most likely culprit. Even removing and reseating it can do the trick. When I started doing more workstation stuff I was amazed at how many issued are caused by memory... Dan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2011, at 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
You can add another one and disable the onboard in BIOS. Luther On Aug 12, 2011 9:52 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin lt;ka...@striplin.netgt; wrote: If it's the vid card I believe it's built onto the mb Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Allan Streib lt;str...@cs.indiana.edugt; wrote: gt; Rich Thomas lt;richthomas79td...@constructivity.netgt; writes: gt; gt;gt; I had that problem when the vid card was going flaky. Replaced it and gt;gt; no more problems (twice actually). It was a bunch of blown capacitors gt;gt; on the board, when it got hot they quit capacitating. But only in gt;gt; regular mode, in safe mode it seemed to work which was kinda odd, gt;gt; maybe it was not putting as much processing load on the vid board? gt; gt; Safe mode uses a very low-level video mode (640x480?) and like 16 or 256 gt; colors, which probably does bypass much circuitry on the video card. gt; gt; Allan gt; -- gt; 1983 300D gt; gt; ___ gt; http://www.okiebenz.com gt; For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com gt; To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ gt; gt; To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: gt; 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
Tried a new battery on the mother board? Gerry From: Walt Zarnoch zarnoch...@gmail.com 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 - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3829 - Release Date: 08/12/11 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT computer shuts down
G Mann wrote: Currently having the same issues with a Win 7 computer. It started following an update of the latest windows critical update hasn't been right since, blue screen, crashes, it even now tells me my issue of windows is not valid. [guess the last 2 years and a sales receipt were updated?] Just use Linux. Or BSD, though for an beginner Linux will likely be easier. Keep the hardware - dump the problem, the OS. -- Philip ___ 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
