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

[RWM (Out of the Office)]

I've booted to the Win2K CD with no apparent adverse consequences.

Any reason I shouldn't try FIX BOOT and/or FIXMBR ?

- Bob


David Ross wrote:

>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...
>>