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[OT] Sudden XP death
\ maxim wexler (22 Dec 2007)
. \ Thierry de Coulon (22 Dec 2007)
. . \ maxim wexler (22 Dec 2007)
. . . \ Thierry de Coulon (23 Dec 2007)
. . . . \ Neil Bothwick (23 Dec 2007)
. . . . . \ maxim wexler (23 Dec 2007)
. . . . . . \ Mick (15 Jan 2008)
. . . . . . . \ Iain Buchanan (16 Jan 2008)

Subject:	[OT] Sudden XP death
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	maxim wexler
Date:	22 Dec 2007

Hi group,

Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies
suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere
between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards
without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off.
And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden
shutdown, just churns merrily along for a few moments
then, clunk, the PC stops cold.

This is a fresh install of XP SP1 with nothing added
except for the (native)9250 ATI drivers. It hasn't
even been on line yet, so it's not a virus.

It's on sda1, which was freshly formatted NTFS; the
rest of the drive is given over to gentoo which works
fine.

Be interested to hear from anyone else this has ever
happened to.

Maxim

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