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

[David Ross]

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

But did you run stuff for a while?

I replaced a PS last year with pretty much your symptoms, it would keep
rebooting after the disk check; if I left it off overnight  I could coax
it to run Windows for a while before a reboot  and when I ran Ubunto
live it would work for almost an hour before freezing up.  Changing the
PS fixed everything.

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

As Chris said, it won't help, but it won't hurt either.

I think running some kind of diagnostic or non-Windows CD is the only
way you're going to figure out if it is hardware or Windows at fault.

David

>
> - 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...
> >>
>
>