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From: Daave on 1 Nov 2009 09:14 I don't understand why you got rid of the cross-post. OP's issue revolves around a Dell that is running Windows XP. It seems logical to crosspost to the two newsgroups he did. Now, if someone from the XP group has something useful to contribute, expanding on your suggestions/questions, it won't be able to happen. Christopher Muto wrote: > no cross posting please. > > never heard of a xps-z. > what model are you talking about? desktop or laptop? what operating > system? > > > "Searcher7" <Searcher7(a)mail.con2.com> wrote in message > news:b819b3f1-83e1-4f7a-b700-eddcde87f7f5(a)w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com... >> I have a Dell XPS-Z 866Mhz Pentium 3, with 384mb and a 20Gig hard >> drive that is only two thirds full.. >> >> When I power the system on it tends to reset and start over at >> varying point during the booting sequence. I usually get to a point >> where I have to press "DEL" to get it to re-boot, and sometimes I >> make it as far as my desktop, but then after a couple of seconds the >> machine will reboot again. >> >> At first it only happened occasionally, but it has been getting >> progressively worse, and the last time I turned it on I went through >> the re-booting cycle 8 or 9 times before it finally stayed on. >> >> Any ideas on what to look at first? Could it be the power supply? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Darren Harris >> Staten Island, New York.
From: RnR on 1 Nov 2009 10:57 On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:14:54 -0500, "Daave" <daave(a)example.com> wrote: >I don't understand why you got rid of the cross-post. OP's issue >revolves around a Dell that is running Windows XP. It seems logical to >crosspost to the two newsgroups he did. > >Now, if someone from the XP group has something useful to contribute, >expanding on your suggestions/questions, it won't be able to happen. > > Daave, I agree 100% with you. I don't and never have agreed with Chris on this issue. To be honest, I don't recall anyone except for one other person, requesting no crossposting here. Actually I think the positives (more knowledge) outweigh the negatives (more spammers) based on my observation of this newsgroup. Yes, on occasion we do get spammers here but as a group, we seem to do well to get rid of them over time.
From: Nick on 1 Nov 2009 13:47 On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:14:54 -0500, in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell, "Daave" <daave(a)example.com> wrote: >I don't understand why you got rid of the cross-post. OP's issue >revolves around a Dell that is running Windows XP. It seems logical to >crosspost to the two newsgroups he did. > >Now, if someone from the XP group has something useful to contribute, >expanding on your suggestions/questions, it won't be able to happen. Keep in mind that his removal of the crossposting only affects his post and the posts responding to it. So the rest of the appropriately crossposted thread about the original topic will still be visible in the intended newsgroups, and only those of us who respond in this little subthread will be affected (and we could easily restore the newsgroup header if we thought this discussion needed to be propagated to the other newsgroup). -- Nick <mailto:tanstaafl(a)pobox.com> Prove your manhood: flame a newbie today! <That's sarcasm, folks...>
From: William R. Walsh on 2 Nov 2009 01:37 Hi! > I don't understand why you got rid of the cross-post. In this case, it fails to make sense. There is a pre-operating system problem here, as the OP is having trouble even getting the system to pass through its POST. I feel it is very likely that a fan is not running or that something is plugged up, causing overheating. The original poster should clean the system, verify that all fans are running, reseat all the expansion cards, remove and reinsert all the cables plugging into the system and try again. William
From: Ben Myers on 2 Nov 2009 07:41
William R. Walsh wrote: > Hi! > >> I don't understand why you got rid of the cross-post. > > In this case, it fails to make sense. There is a pre-operating system > problem here, as the OP is having trouble even getting the system to pass > through its POST. > > I feel it is very likely that a fan is not running or that something is > plugged up, causing overheating. The original poster should clean the > system, verify that all fans are running, reseat all the expansion cards, > remove and reinsert all the cables plugging into the system and try again. > > William > > It's actually dangerous to ask a Microsoft software "expert" a question about hardware problems. The pained and vague explanations of all the Windows stop codes attest to that. The best and most consistent explanation for any Windows stop code is: "Something went wrong. We do not have a clue." Rarely do the suggested solutions for stop code problems work... Ben Myers |