I have windows xp pro and all of a sudden one day it shut off.
I observed the following subsequently when I re started it
1. It would sometimes boot up to the log on screen and then either shut off or give me the blue screen with messages like "video driver has failed to initialise" or just a blue screen with message that if you are getting this message for the first time please check everything and restart.
2. I checked and ensured that all fans were working. The CPU, HD fan, Power supply fan. They were working fine.
3. I removed the memory (1G ) one piece and reinserted it.
4. I went into the BIOS and checked. I found that the CPU temperature ranged from 79 degrees Centigrade at the initial start going upto 89 degrees. I found this temperature to be extremely high.
5. If there was something wrong with the motherboard, or software it would not bootup at all. I have a dual partition with XP loaded on the other partition also. With the assumption that the first XP Partition was having a problem I tried booting into the other partition, but I got the same errors of the system shutting off.
My conclusion was that it was an hardware issue of the CPU getting too hot, but I cannot see why it is happening as all the fans are working.
Would appreciate if any of you gurus could shed some light on this. Appreciate any help. Thanks
I observed the following subsequently when I re started it
1. It would sometimes boot up to the log on screen and then either shut off or give me the blue screen with messages like "video driver has failed to initialise" or just a blue screen with message that if you are getting this message for the first time please check everything and restart.
2. I checked and ensured that all fans were working. The CPU, HD fan, Power supply fan. They were working fine.
3. I removed the memory (1G ) one piece and reinserted it.
4. I went into the BIOS and checked. I found that the CPU temperature ranged from 79 degrees Centigrade at the initial start going upto 89 degrees. I found this temperature to be extremely high.
5. If there was something wrong with the motherboard, or software it would not bootup at all. I have a dual partition with XP loaded on the other partition also. With the assumption that the first XP Partition was having a problem I tried booting into the other partition, but I got the same errors of the system shutting off.
My conclusion was that it was an hardware issue of the CPU getting too hot, but I cannot see why it is happening as all the fans are working.
Would appreciate if any of you gurus could shed some light on this. Appreciate any help. Thanks