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On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hi group, |
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> Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies |
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> suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere |
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> between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards |
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> without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. |
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> And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden |
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> shutdown, just churns merrily along for a few moments |
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> then, clunk, the PC stops cold. |
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> This is a fresh install of XP SP1 with nothing added |
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> except for the (native)9250 ATI drivers. It hasn't |
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> even been on line yet, so it's not a virus. |
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> It's on sda1, which was freshly formatted NTFS; the |
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> rest of the drive is given over to gentoo which works |
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> fine. |
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> Be interested to hear from anyone else this has ever |
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> happened to. |
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> Maxim |
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Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do you mean you're installing |
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to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? Do I understand right |
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that the installation of XP went OK but booting fails? Or are you trying to |
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boot an installed XP from vmware? |
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Anyway, my experience with such sudden failures were usually linked to either |
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processor heat or Power Supply being not strong enough. But it was never |
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linked to vmware. |
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Thierry |
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