Lou
09-20-2001, 12:40 PM
System Info: I have a Dell OptiPlex GX110. OS is NT 4. 3 partitions: c drive is 3.83 gb NTFS 1.37 gb used. d drive is 2.93 gb 554 mb used. e drive is 2.54 gb and 186 mb used. Viewing NT Diagnosis c drive states 1 sector per cluster where d and e drive states that it is 8 sectors per cluster.
Problem: I shut down my pc for the day and it will not shut down, but rather it continually reboots. It gets up to the blue screen where it statues Wins NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, then an error message quickly appears and disappers--can't read it. There is a little beep sound and it then reboots.
This has happened twice (in the last 2 months) with this same pc but different hard drives. First time it happened, the hard drive was replaced and it apparently fixed the problem. Second time it happened but first time with the new hard drive, the power source was replaced but that did not fix the problem. So another hard drive was replaced.
Now before I go through getting everything back the way it was, I want to ensure it will not happen again. The only common thing that I did on the day this happened to both hard drives, is to change the security to my hard drives, allowing only my ids and the sys admin id access to my pc. This should not affect the boot process. My old hard drive is still in my pc as the 2nd hard drive so that I can get to my data. I just can't boot with it. Anyway, I changed the security back to what it was and tried to boot from it and it still did not work. That tells me it could not be the security issue.
Could this be something with pagefile? mother board? or ? Any way to test these issues? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Problem: I shut down my pc for the day and it will not shut down, but rather it continually reboots. It gets up to the blue screen where it statues Wins NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, then an error message quickly appears and disappers--can't read it. There is a little beep sound and it then reboots.
This has happened twice (in the last 2 months) with this same pc but different hard drives. First time it happened, the hard drive was replaced and it apparently fixed the problem. Second time it happened but first time with the new hard drive, the power source was replaced but that did not fix the problem. So another hard drive was replaced.
Now before I go through getting everything back the way it was, I want to ensure it will not happen again. The only common thing that I did on the day this happened to both hard drives, is to change the security to my hard drives, allowing only my ids and the sys admin id access to my pc. This should not affect the boot process. My old hard drive is still in my pc as the 2nd hard drive so that I can get to my data. I just can't boot with it. Anyway, I changed the security back to what it was and tried to boot from it and it still did not work. That tells me it could not be the security issue.
Could this be something with pagefile? mother board? or ? Any way to test these issues? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.