[Thinkpad] OK, not a Thinkpad issue, but bear with me... Any ideas?

[David Ross]

This too is a classic symptom of a failing power supply.

Try booting to a live linux distro CD or diagnostic CD, something that
doesn't use your HD, and see if it freezes after a while.

DR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RWM (Out of the Office)" <RWM at RWMann.com>
To: "Thinkpad User Group" <thinkpad at stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:09 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] OK, not a Thinkpad issue,but bear with me... Any
ideas?


> After a scheduled boot time defrag, my primary Compaq desktop has
> developed a repeated black screen (could be blue; too quick to see or
> read) reboot after performing an apparently successful "scheduled disk
> check" from the partial Win2k splash screen.
>
> It POSTS OK, boots through BIOS OK, boots through the black and white
> zipper OK, boots through the Win2K splash screen with blue progress
bar,
> then proceeds to the repeated "disk check has been scheduled" phase,
> completes this successfully, then crashes.
>
> I have tried booting to "last known good configuration" and safe mode,
> same outcomes.
>
> Any ideas on this?  I have the Win2K CD, so can try a recovery, if
> that's likely to be useful.
>
> Yes, I have Ghost backups, but of course now have no client on which
to
> recover them.
>
> - RWM, from a Thinkpad...
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