Nehmo Sergheyev wrote in message
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- Nehmo -
Where is the event log? I get about 5 minuts between shutdowns.
- Rod Speed -
Control Panel/Performance and Maintenance/
Admin Tools/Event Viewer/System
- Nehmo -
I'm using old drive too.
- Rod Speed -
Yeah, thats what I meant to say last time and managed to forget,
that its unlikely to be anything to do with the drive copying. Its
likely the system has become very unstable for other reasons.

Try memtest86 on it to check for memory errors.

- Nehmo -
I found event viewer by looking at Help. I didn't see anything
that looked like a problem, but I don't know what to look for.

Basically entrys with a red X in front of them in the System log.

I called a friend of mine, Bret, who used to work at Cisco (and now is
trying to run a FIGHT studio. He had his first two customers yesterday.)
. When I explained, Bret said, "I'm 99% sure, and I don't usually say
that, that it has something to do with the power settings." On his
direction, I went into Windows setup (or I think BIOS means the same
thing) Power Menu ACPI and although it was Yes, I changed it to No
restarted went back into BIOS and changed it back to Yes. I think
things are working now. It hasn't shut down again yet.

OK.

Now I have to get back to the drive problem.

I've unplugged and replugged the ATA ribbon so many times (I used long
nose pliers) that the pieces of plastic _over_ the end connectors have
come off. I think the cable is still electrically okay though.

Best to replace it.

Bret said I should just use Ghost.

Yes, that certainly works. Drive Image too.

He wasn't familiar with XXCLONE.

Yeah, its only been released for a few weeks now.

You appeared to be saying that you had used xxclone successfully.
Isnt it working properly now that the acpi problem is fixed ?