TSGL: New PC + XP reboots ... all well now?

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

just to add some more...

>From safe mode I've removed everything from autostart, even removed a 
program I had updated lately ...
The PC after that started wit several errors which I just acknowledged, then 
seemed to work fine. I did a reboot after that, expecting the problem to 
come back, but all was fine.

Have NOT attached my Sata drive (2nd) to the machine yet. And I got new 
video drivers just in case.

Still no idea *what* on earth may have caused this abominable situation. 
Haven't experienced anything similar with *new* machines over the last 20+ 
years.

Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:13 PM
Subject: TSGL: New PC + XP reboots again+again


> Hi,
> my latest problem doesn't bother me anymore ;-/
>
> Bought a new machine (pretty good one btw), and have had a hard time 
> since... Installed XP anew, and copied several of my old user settings 
> over there (desktop & more). Took half a day of installing back my 
> favorite programs and tuning things. Then -  with Windows screen on, 
> whenever I clicked on a user, the PC did a reboot.
>
> Talked to the vendor, he suggested a software problem. So I moved 
> everything over into a different (pretty new) machine. There things seemed 
> to work, but after a while same thing here too.
>
> Decided I had copied too many (wrong) old settings over from old machine, 
> therefore I went back to my new PC, swiped the C: partition and installed 
> again ;-(
>
> Now rebooting is back again ...this time after I installed ZoneAlarm 
> (first reboot) and then when I started Win update from MS site - there it 
> rebooted 4 times I guess (not the reboots it does normally). Now I'm 
> running HDD checks for errors ... don't think there are any, the HDD is 8 
> month old. Did a thorough mem-test as well, no errors there.
>
> I've read on the web that there *can* be problems with some Samsung HDDs - 
> I have an ATA and a SATA one ... both 250 GB & pretty new.... Any ideas 
> anybody?
>
> Tilman
> (holding my breath for next reboot)