Bad shutown and restart

[billurie]

I want to confirm that what I have is *not* a
Windows XP problem.

All of a sudden, my computer, when I shut down to Restart XP,
closes down as if to Restart, starts up as if to Restart and
gets as far as the OEM Logo screen, and turns power off.
Pushing the Power-On button will take it to that same
OEM logo screen and no further, unless I wait at least
ten minutes. Otherwise, it powers down right after that
OEM logo screen, and before it gets to the BIOS area where
I can push F8 to interrupt and change things in the BIOS
sequence. If I wait the (approximately) ten minutes,
everything boots normally, all the way.

What I'm asking is confirmation that this isn't a problem
that can be fixed in Windows, and that I'll have to either
live with it, or do something in the BIOS software.

 

[Richard Urban]

Bill, you are stating the whole problem. Aren't you having problems with bad
sectors also?

If this is the same machine, please state the complete symptoms, all of
them, in one posting. They may well be related.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[billurie]

Bill, you are stating the whole problem. Aren't you having problems with bad
sectors also?

If this is the same machine, please state the complete symptoms, all of
them, in one posting. They may well be related.

Okay, Richard, I'll add the bad sectors story here, but I'm not sharp
enough to see how they could be related.

On almost all of my hard drives, I find that chkdsk/r runs and
tells me that I have 4K to 12K of bad sectors. Repeating chkdsk, I
don't think the number of bad sectors indicated ever changes, nor
does it mention anything about fixing anything during the chkdsk run.
It has always been this way, but the bad shutdown and restart is
a problem which popped up suddenly, and is now with me steadily.