The Computer is a Compaq Presario 5423us.  It belongs to a friend of mine.  Her grandkids 
got a hold of it and had it full of junk.  It was shutting off after a few minutes. 
 I found the source of that problem.  The fan in the power supply was locked up and 
it was causing the power supply to overheat and shut off.  I replaced the fan and 
all is well there.  Tested with a power supply meter.  I slipstreamed the original 
operating system disk with SP3 using n-lite, but made no other changes to the files. 
 I'm thinking of swapping the hard drive slipstreaming the OS disk with SP2 and trying 
a clean install that way.  Anyway, I'm not sure what type of motherboard it is.  
Everest tells me it's a "Compaq Presario".  It's P4 1.6Ghz processor.  512Mb (2x256) 
DDR SDRAM PC2100.  Single 80Gig hard drive with two partitions, one system partition 
and a 3Gig page file partition.  Two optical drives, One DVD-ROM and a CD-RW drive. 
 Standard Floppy Drive.  All drives are IDE, no SATA of any kind.  Video is a nVidia 
GeForce2 MX video card.  All other stuff is pretty standard.

What I don't understand is I only get this when I restart.  If I choose to shut down 
instead of turn off and then immediately start the computer after the shutdown is 
complete all is well.  It's not like I'm letting the system cool off or anything.

It sure is a learning situation.  I'm not completely aggravated at this point.  Just 
perplexed, never had anything like this happen before which is making me wonder if 
it has something to do with SP3. 

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On Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 5:42 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:

>What shows up in Disk Management?

>


>Click Start then Run, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter.

>


>What are your system specs? What motherboard, what kind of hard drives? 

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