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

[RWM (Out of the Office)]

David Ross wrote:

>>I've booted to the Win2K CD with no apparent adverse consequences.
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>But did you run stuff for a while?
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Yes, in the sense that I ran thru various Restore Console display 
options - MAP, PARTINFO, TYPE c:\BOOT.INI, CHKDSK /P and the like - but 
no, nothing that would smoke a PS.

>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.
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Certainly an option to consider.

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>>Any reason I shouldn't try FIX BOOT and/or FIXMBR ?
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>As Chris said, it won't help, but it won't hurt either.
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>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.
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Would you place the Win2K system file Restore in that category?  
Partition Magic 6 boot disk?  If not, what as examples?

Thanks for your assistance and forebearance.

- Bob


>David
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>>- Bob
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>>David Ross wrote:
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>>>This too is a classic symptom of a failing power supply.
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>>>Try booting to a live linux distro CD or diagnostic CD, something
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>>>doesn't use your HD, and see if it freezes after a while.
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>>>DR
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>>>----- 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?
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>>>>After a scheduled boot time defrag, my primary Compaq desktop has
>>>>developed a repeated black screen (could be blue; too quick to see
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>>>>read) reboot after performing an apparently successful "scheduled
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>disk
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>>>>check" from the partial Win2k splash screen.
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>>>>It POSTS OK, boots through BIOS OK, boots through the black and
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>white
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>>>>zipper OK, boots through the Win2K splash screen with blue progress
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>>>bar,
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>>>>then proceeds to the repeated "disk check has been scheduled" phase,
>>>>completes this successfully, then crashes.
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>>>>I have tried booting to "last known good configuration" and safe
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>mode,
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>>>>same outcomes.
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>>>>Any ideas on this?  I have the Win2K CD, so can try a recovery, if
>>>>that's likely to be useful.
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>>>>Yes, I have Ghost backups, but of course now have no client on which
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>>>to
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>>>>recover them.
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>>>>- RWM, from a Thinkpad...
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