TSGL: Laptops - strange reboot changes

[jonpan]

Reporting in:

In the meantime, I have found that as long as the laptop remains connected 
to the mains supply there is no problem. That leaves me with some more 
questions.

If the CMOS battery is weak and the main rechargeable runs down, would all 
the settings disappear, but the system reboot to virgin XP when connected to 
the mains?
If the CMOS is good and the main battery runs down, does such a system lose 
its settings but still reboot when plugged in?

Thanks for any ideas.

John
Od/G


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Laptops - strange reboot changes


John,

hopefully others will come and offer better ideas, here's waht comes to my
mind ...

Have you looked at your boot.ini file? From my understanding it *could* have
been changed/overwritten (how? no idea)

Either open it in notepad from your C: drive, or from Start | Run by
executing msconfig. Look at the boot.ini Tab there, you can even check the
paths and anyway have a look at the contents of that file.

Under msconfig you should also check system.ini + win.ini for maybe
*injected* elements that could cause this behavior. And of course - also
look at what is under the systemstart (Systemstart) Tab.

Good luck
Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jonpan" <jonpan at onlinehome.de>
To: "ListTSG" <List at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:21 PM
Subject: TSGL: Laptops


> Hi all,
>
> I recently bought a used HP laptop with XP SP2. I partitioned the
> relatively small HDD into C and D with the OS on C: and installed several
> programmes I needed to D: Now, after a while, when I re-start it boots to
> the original XP ("take the tour") and all my changes have disappeared.
>
> A System Restore does bring everything back.
>
> Is it possible that this is caused by a weak rechargeable or the CMOS
> battery?
> Any experiences of this or other ideas? I usually pull the mains plug when
> I leave it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
> Od/G


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