[HLUG] Weird one.....

[Meijin]

Hi Andrew.

Exactly as you state - it shuts down. No errors, or warning or anything.

I don't think it is temperature related, but I will have a good look 
just in case.

Cheers

Rob

Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When you say "bombs out", what happens to the system when this happens?  I had an issue where the system would either hard reset or stop working completely during the file copy of XP, and it turned out to be an overheating issue.
>
> Thanks.
> Andrew.
>
> Andrew Hodgson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Meijin
> Sent: 29 October 2009 16:16
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> Subject: [HLUG] Weird one.....
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> I'm still struggling with trying to get Windows XP back on someone's laptop (and no they don't want Ubuntu - I've tried !)
>
> I can quite happily put Ubuntu onto the machine and it will run fine and happy.
>
> However, I cannot get XP back onto it as the install bombs out, usually about 25% of the way through (during file copies)
>
> I've tried a different hard disk just in case Ubuntu was less fussy about drive errors than Windows, but to no avail....
>
> I'm a little stumped to say the least.
>
> Anyone experienced anything similar and able to offer advice ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
>