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Date:	Sat, 1 Sep 2007 10:00:44 -0700
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"Martin Rosenfeld" <rosenfeldmj@ca.rr.com > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Help with Old Computer...?

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Martin,
It sounds very much to me like a heat problem. I had the same symptom on my
daughter's (Windose) computer about 2 years ago. She keeps her computer in a very
confined space and I had just completed a motherboard, CPU and hard drive update
on her system. Then, when I tried to back her system up, using Acronis True Image, I
could only get so far. The system would abruptly stop and shut off. The shutdown
occurred in exactly the same spot every time. At the time it was summer and the heat
was pretty oppressive. I had to install more fans on the motherboard and a much better
CPU fan.

I doubt if your problem is a trap, caused by the loading of the snap driver, for example.
Based on my understanding, traps usually produce system reboots, not shutdowns.
HCM

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:43:09 -0700, Martin Rosenfeld wrote:

>I wish to invite speculation as to what might be causing my most recent
>headache.
>
>I have retrieved a retired computer from the garage. It has a K7 Triton
>400 motherboard with an AMD Athalon XP 1500+ and 0.5 GB main memory. It
>now has two IDE drives on channel 2 and a sole IDE CD reader on channel
>1 (I cannot boot from the CD unless it is on the first channel.) Twice I
>was able to install eCS 2.0 rc1, but now when I try to run eCS, just
>before the Snap driver logo shows on the screen, the screen goes blank
>and the computer turns itself off. Now, also, when I try to reinstall
>eCs or Win98 (for nostalgic reasons), when the early installation has
>finished and the screen says we are about to copy a lot of files, the
>screen goes blank and the computer turns itself off.
>
>My first instinct was to suspect the power supply, especially in this
>heat and no air conditioning (Costa Mesa, usually have sea breeze). I
>swapped in a power supply from another retired computer. Same problem. I
>do have a new power supply on order, but I no longer suspect that as the
>problem.
>
>There is a reputed Indian saying that you should not judge another until
>you have walked a mile in his moccasins. In like vein, I believe you
>should not try to fix another's computer until you have sat at his
>keyboard. However, I still am asking for anyone's speculation as to what
>may be causing this problem.
>
>Martin Rosenfeld
>
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