Re: [PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Zap wrote: > Nah, hibernating stores everything on the drive and modifies your boot > sequence. You could completely disconnect power and successfully > resume a hibernation session later. > Yeah, that's what must have happened. But that's odd because I just closed my laptop which should've se

Re: [PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Nah, hibernating stores everything on the drive and modifies your boot sequence. You could completely disconnect power and successfully resume a hibernation session later. On 7/2/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe somehow it's going into hibernate mode, but still I would think >

Re: [PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Jim wrote: > Hibernating copies the current state of your RAM to disk then shuts down your > PC completely. Ah ha! Gotcha, so that probably explains why this happened in this case. Whew. I thought I was going nuts. However the crashes due to a memory fault are probably still due to some of

Re: [PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Davis
>It asks me to log in, which I do. AND THEN IT RETURNS ME TO MY >SESSION! All my previously opened apps, their state, everything. And >I was able to work for about 5 min before the BSOD again. > >How can a PC do that? I thought that when you shut it down, >especially if you remove the battery,

Re: [PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Wayne wrote: > Is there a CMOS battery in the laptop. It is kind of small, looks like a > watch battery. You may need to remove the keyboard to find it. But does that actually keep RAM powered up during a power cycle? I thought that was only for ROM and other non user memory, not a battery b

Re: [PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread William Bowen
> are you sure it's not hibernating? yeah, sounds like the exact same thing that happens with my wife's brand new Dell laptop. When I was troubleshooting it the other day, I asked about how she was "shutting down." She told me she was Hibernating the computer, the result is a bizarre loop of 5+ "

Re: [PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread Wayne Swink
Is there a CMOS battery in the laptop. It is kind of small, looks like a watch battery. You may need to remove the keyboard to find it. >>> "Gruss Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/02/07 12:15 PM >>> I've got a PC that's on the fritz and will randomly give me the BSOD with a memory fault, "trying to

Re: [PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
are you sure it's not hibernating? On 7/2/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a PC that's on the fritz and will randomly give me the BSOD > with a memory fault, "trying to access paged memory in a non-paged > area" after telling me it found new USB or PCI hardware even though I >

[PC Chat] How is this even possible???

2007-07-02 Thread Gruss Gott
I've got a PC that's on the fritz and will randomly give me the BSOD with a memory fault, "trying to access paged memory in a non-paged area" after telling me it found new USB or PCI hardware even though I didn't touch it. Once it crashes I have to try to reboot about 10 times before it'll come up