From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J5xfy-0000Ju-2v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:17:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBM6GF3X007639; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:16:15 GMT Received: from email.siw.ch (email.siw.ch [217.197.213.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBM6Bw2r002763 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:11:58 GMT Received: from tcoulon@decoulon.ch by email.siw.ch (MDaemon PRO v9.6.3) with ESMTP id md50007702100.msg for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:12:09 +0100 From: Thierry de Coulon Organization: Shadok To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:11:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) References: <998018.29806.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <998018.29806.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712220711.28227.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> X-MDPtrLookup-Result: pass dns.ptr=adsl-84-226-44-178.adslplus.ch (ip=84.226.44.178) (email.siw.ch) X-MDHeloLookup-Result: hardfail smtp.helo=tcoulon@decoulon.ch (does not match 84.226.44.178) (email.siw.ch) X-Authenticated-Sender: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-MDRemoteIP: 84.226.44.178 X-Return-Path: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-Envelope-From: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-MDAV-Processed: email.siw.ch, Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:12:10 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: 9e4b69db-782a-4f24-a335-f3faa8510b46 X-Archives-Hash: d095b6d986526b9c52fafb9d749d615e On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > 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 Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do you mean you're installing to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? Do I understand right that the installation of XP went OK but booting fails? Or are you trying to boot an installed XP from vmware? Anyway, my experience with such sudden failures were usually linked to either processor heat or Power Supply being not strong enough. But it was never linked to vmware. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list