Re: Allergic to XP

Hey AJR .. thanks for the reply.

<quote>I have to press and hold down the power button for several seconds to
turn off the monitor.</quote>

I actually meant CPU in the above phrase. Sorry for the confusion. And yes,
I will post any successful fix here.

I do have a bad feeling that I need to scrap my M/B :(

thx
t


"AJR" wrote:

Interesting to say the least - can only help regarding the power on/off
button. ATX power supplies are "software" operated - the switch is not "hard
wired" as in previous power supplies- five volts is continuously provided to
the board even though power is not on - when you push for power on the
circuit looks for the 5 volts which tells that the supply is functioning and
"main" supply is then turned. Some newer motherboards have a led which
indicates presence of the 5 volts for troubleshooting purposes.
I have taken the long way around to: to turn off the PC by the power button
requires holding it in for several seconds - it's normal.
Please post any successful replies to your problem.


"Tom" <sherry_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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help..

my machine is acting funny. it refuses to work on XP. When I boot up in
XP,
I get to the welcome screen and then poof..

1) My monitor blanks out
2) CPU power is on and fans are running
3) No HD activity
4) Power/reset buttons inactive
5) Keyboard inactive

I have to press and hold down the power button for several seconds to turn
off the monitor.

Case/CPU Temp: Normal

My initial TS steps

1) Boot up in Safe mode - same results
2) Safe Mode - command mode - same results
3) VGA mode (thinking it might be a display adapter issue) - same results

I used PM to push the data back and created a new bootable drive to which
I
installed Win98.SE. This works fine.

I then tried installing Win 2000, install was successful but when I tried
to
log in - same result (poof!!)

I removed that.. redid everthing again and am now back to Win98.SE and
WinXP
combo. With 98, my machine works flawlessly, with XP - poof again!!

As a second level TS, i got another system

1) Switched HDs - mine works in the other but other HD doesnt even boot up
on mine (oh yes! it has XP too, no 98..)
2) Switched RAMs (dont know why) - same results

My conclusion: Its H/W related

Can anyone help me through this. My files are on the NTFS partitions and
currently I access them via an NTFS reader which is very painful. Also I'm
limited to 5GB (of 80GB) that I managed to reclaim and convert to FAT32 to
load 98

Help!!!!!!!!!!!





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