bvc Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 scoopy, I have the exact same problem on my 4 year old box. Mostly the wife uses it because I won't get off this one . It has 10-OE only on it. Win2k won't even boot at all, period, nothin. She's starting to like linux ;) . So what we do is boot and when it dies the first boot, usually at the mdkkdm login, we just let it sit there at the blank screen for 5 or 10 minutes and then after a reboot it works fine. Yes, it just about has to be thermal but in our case I wonder about the bios kicking the bucket because sometimes it doesn't shutdown, sometimes it does. The first time I disabled acpi in the bios the box was fine for a week, then it started doing it again. I've tested the ram, swapped psu, hd's, and video cards....always the same......on its last leg I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Replace the battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 thanks streeter and bvc... I will look into this (no problem with my win2k or shutdowns here) :D Let's get this thread back to cybr's problem now. I didn't mean to hijack this... it just sounded very similiar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 thanks streeter and bvc... I will look into this (no problem with my win2k or shutdowns here) :D Let's get this thread back to cybr's problem now. I didn't mean to hijack this... it just sounded very similiar. That's ok, I haven't had time to look into why yet :lol: Come on, it's linux, not like I shutdown often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Replace the battery. I did...twice....no diff...thx though :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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