this is weird.  I get this message only when I restart my computer.  There are no 
disks in any drives.  No USB devices turned on.  If I hit the power button, the computer 
turns off.  Same message when I hit a key on the keyboard.  When I turn the computer 
back on, it's ok.  Only when I restart the computer.

Any ideas.

Need more info?

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Boot to safe mode and re-start from there to test the core os.

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Happens when restarting from safe mode too.

What is weird is this only happens when I restart the computer.  If I shut it completely 
down and start it back up, it's fine.

Any Ideas?







On Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 6:30 am, Jacob6601 wrote:

>Boot to safe mode and re-start from there to test the core os. 

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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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Very strange... Go through these steps. Use msconfig to disable all start-up items 
to decrease boot time (safe mode eliminated them as culprits).

1. Look in the BIOS, but I have never seen different settings for cold vs warm boot. 
You must cover that base first though. You might, however, change it from HD first 
to a: first, for example. Then re-boot and change it back.

2. Boot from any floppy/CD (install, os, etc). No need to take action; Let the boot 
complete, remove the disk, and use CTRL-ALT-DEL to re-boot. Note if you get the error 
(post results here). Let xp load and re-boot. Note if you get the error (post results 
here).

NOTE: If you are worried about going in the case, skip 3 and 4 at this point.

3. Look at the hardware. Is this a PATA(IDE) or SATA disk?
Either way, replace, if possible, the data cable. It may simply be pinched, just 
moving it around some may help. Re-boot, etc.  The power cable is also suspect, to 
a lesser degree.

4. Try the disk on the other channel. Just leave the optical drive off here. Re-boot, 
etc.

5. NOTE: You should only have to do this once; Change it back after re-boot/test. 
Clear the Windows Paging File http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 
If the value exists, note what you change it from. If you can boot from a CD (like 
linux) you can delete c:\pagefile.sys and achieve this without entering the registry. 
Testing this will take a shutdown then a re-boot.

6. Use the Recovery Console for "chkdsk c: /p", "fixboot" and "fixmbr". Re-boot AFTER 
EACH FIX???? COMMAND! They are not as dangerous as a BIOS flash, but not to be tried 
lightly either.

Recovery Console = http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/en-us

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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. 

??







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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Doesn't make sense to me why this would only affect a re-start as opposed to a re-boot. 
 I apparently bumped the floppy cable while removing and reinstalling the power supply.

I first unplugged the floppy and booted and restarted with no problem.  I then plugged 
in a new floppy and booted and restarted with no problem.  I then plugged the old 
floppy back in and booted and restarted with no problem.

Go Figure.

Thanks guys for your help, I really appreciate the time spent on this problem.  Oversight 
on my part, I thought i thoroughly checked all cables.

Still don't understand why this would only affect a restart and not a complete shutdown 
and start up.  One of life's many mysteries.
 

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"Floating" voltage levels on the (drive) control bits. A shutdown would effectively 
ground any open circuits.

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