I always use my laptop on a hard surface so that it has enough space for the airflow. and the cooling vent is not under the laptop like some...
I have a DELL inspiron 6000 with Vista ultimate installed on it. I recently noticed that while the PC is up, the cooling fan (or the CPU fan?) is...
I dont know what ACPI or the states 1 and 3 mean. It just worked for me. donkey42, can you share what these states mean?
It turns out it was a driver issue. I had to install the relevant drivers from the device manager for each of these video cards independently...
I have a PC with the ATI FireGL PCIE card that I am currently using for 2 monitors. I got a new video card ATI X1550 PRO PCI version that I want...
I figured out the problem. There was a setting in the BIOS that I had to change. Machine - emachines T5216 Motherboard : Mickelson Trail...
I have a XP MCE PC with a 160Gb hard drive on it. I recently bought a new 500Gb SATA drive and installed on this PC. Everything is fine. I was...
Here's the motherboard info NEC G7FYD chipset : via vt82c694x apollo pro 133a
I ran into something else now. I haven't tried it on a new HD but I installed XP Pro and wiped out W2K3 on the HD I have. The system still reboots...
The OS is Knoppix and it the system did not restart as it always did. Does that mean there is in fact something wrong with the HD? I dont think I...
Nope. I dont have any live CDs!! I do have one linux OS that can run from a CD. Do you think it is going to help??
I am sorry but what do you mean exactly?
Ran the memtest and it passed!!! I guess it is not the memory then??
Yes. I can. After I enter windows and I start working on something, it just boots itself. I even left the system at login screen without logging...
Well, I have no problem logging in. The problem a couple of minutes after I log in. Anyway, IDE is the only thing that is connected right now. I...
Well, that didn't last long. The next day, the system started rebooting itself even when the CD-ROM is not connected. And now, there is nothing in...
I think I did not understand what you are saying. Sorry about that. So, you are saying that I dont need to connect the HD LED at all for my IDE...
It does not reboot by iteself when I remove the CDROM completely and just connect the HD to the CDROM connector on the motherboard. So, it looks...
I meant the login screen. Anyway, let me give it a try. Here's the full details from the eventlog. Event Type: Error Event Source: atapi...
how do you do that. especially in this case, it restarts within 2 to 3 minutes from the moment it shows the CTRL+ALT+DEL dialog.
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