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11-30-2003, 12:24 PM
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Location: Bristol Va.
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Strange Problem ...
IBM Netvista PC
Computer reboots or shuts down after detecting some type of hardware device. Doesn't matter which MS OS, Win9x, ME, XP reboots before the installation is complete. Only hardware in the expansion bus is a PCI Winmodem. I have tried a new hard drive, ram, floppy diskette drive, cd-rom, psu, and removed the modem .. same problem. This pc was working flawless until last August from what a client of mine said. Here is some examples of what it does. Reinstall Win98SE, with ACPI disabled in the bios and PNP off or both on doesn't matter, still does it. But once Win98SE is installed, it loads up, detects the pnp monitor, installes it, detects something else, screen asks to look for the driver, then blam, reboots. I thought perhaps it was the intergrated video, but nope, I can delete the enum registry key, reboot, it goes through detecting everything, then once rebooted, it detects the PCI Bus then reboots. Or I can delete the enum key reboot into safe mode, do a hardware detection and half way it reboots. A chipset gone wrong, motherboard in general, doubt the cpu is bad considering it works flawlessly in safe mode, ran a burn in test for 2 days and nothing went wrong ... I have went as far as disabling every single device in the system or delete values in the enum key to weed out which one is truelly causing it. I thought it was a virus at first because WinME would do the same thing, so I piddled with it and found WinME was wanting to go through the registration process again .. but filling out info wouldnt work, click ok and it would reboot. PC had a recovery partition that was only 912 bytes ... Supposed to be ALOT larger, and there was no actual hidden or none DOS partitions, or file partitions, so I figured the same virus ate those. So I LLFED the HD, same problem, upgraded the BIOS, same problem ... Any suggestions? Any help would be appreciated!!! Take care and God Bless Interrupt Last edited by Interrupt; 11-30-2003 at 12:27 PM. |
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11-30-2003, 12:40 PM
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Wow.... seems like you've done it all already... Seems like the only thing left is substitute just the mobo, using everything else, and see if anythings changes...
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12-01-2003, 02:12 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Woodland Hills, CA (suburb of Los Angeles)
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Newer NetVistas have the "Rapid Restore Ultra" going on, which provides the seemingly shrunken-size restore partition. There's a brief info article at IBM that has a near library of links branching out from it: you might find what you need in there. [ http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/si...id=MIGR-4Q2QAK ] Seems like using whatever their restore procedure is has a decent chance of success. Lots of DMI on the bios level in those machines - corporate friendly & all.
Best of luck . . . Gary [here's another IBM restore article that might help http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/si...cid=MIGR-42216 ] |
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