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> > Be interested to hear from anyone else this has |
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> ever |
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> > happened to. |
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> > |
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> > Maxim |
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> Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do |
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> you mean you're installing |
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> to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? |
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> Do I understand right |
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> that the installation of XP went OK but booting |
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> fails? Or are you trying to |
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> boot an installed XP from vmware? |
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vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both |
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OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not |
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mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will. |
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> |
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> Anyway, my experience with such sudden failures were |
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> usually linked to either |
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> processor heat or Power Supply being not strong |
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> enough. But it was never |
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> linked to vmware. |
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> |
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> Thierry |
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I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250, not |
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playing nice w/XP. As I said earlier the only thing |
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installed was the video drivers. Both sets of XP |
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drivers were tried, the ones that come with XP and the |
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ATI ones that came on a CD with the card. When _no_ |
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video drivers are installed the PC doesn't commit |
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suicide. When either set of available XP drivers are |
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tried the PC randomly dies. |
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If it's the PS surely gentoo would fail as well since |
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I run that(with the gentoo-ATI drivers BTW) for days |
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on end without a problem running various players, |
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merging software, moving files etc. |
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Too much heat? Well, it was running hot as a matter of |
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fact earlier before XP started to tank. The CPU was |
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covered with thick brown dust but cleaning it out |
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didn't help. |
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To test my theory, today I ordered an nVidia Geforce |
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vid card off eBay. |
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I should know in a couple weeks how accurate the |
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diagnosis ;) |
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-mw |
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