TSGL: New PC - rebooting finally stopped

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

wanted to report back how my rebooting problem eventually was solved:

My idea was that this all was about software - this time therefore I started with XP installatiion, did no additional installs, but instead got all the Win-updates from the web. Installing my old software was easy afterwards although I'm not yet finished. No glimpse of the dreaded reboots this time. Relief! This has been a most interesting lection - though I don't know whether I'll have to expect similar things in the future (never had this in the past). 

Windows activation btw went smoothly - over the web with a few clicks only. Nice surprise.

Thanks again to all who tried to help with their ideas and anyway did give me moral support ;-) 

I'm still sitting here with my old (well, 3 years...) machine which is dead as a stone. Maybe I'll look into the box if I ever find the guts to even look at it ;-/

Tilman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tilman Brandl 
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List 
  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)