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I built the following system nearly five and a half years ago: MB: Asus A7V333 CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800 RAM: 512 HDD: 40GB Seagate as primary and 20GB Maxtor as secondary Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 64MB Sound: SoundBlaster Live 5.1 OEM I have a dual boot system with Ubuntu gutsy and Win2K. For the past one year Win2K had been rebooting within the first five minutes of startup. This has been infrequent issue until now. From yesterday, it is not going past the first graphics bootup screen where it shows Windows 2000 Professional logo with a small blue status bar underneath it. When the blue status bar finishes, it reboots. Ubuntu, however, has no problems at all. I have checked through hardware monitor and everything seems to be working OK. Therefore, I was wondering if anyone can help me resolve this issue. Thanks Yousaf |
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"Yousaf" wrote in message ... Hi I built the following system nearly five and a half years ago: MB: Asus A7V333 CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800 RAM: 512 HDD: 40GB Seagate as primary and 20GB Maxtor as secondary Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 64MB Sound: SoundBlaster Live 5.1 OEM I have a dual boot system with Ubuntu gutsy and Win2K. For the past one year Win2K had been rebooting within the first five minutes of startup. This has been infrequent issue until now. From yesterday, it is not going past the first graphics bootup screen where it shows Windows 2000 Professional logo with a small blue status bar underneath it. When the blue status bar finishes, it reboots. Ubuntu, however, has no problems at all. I have checked through hardware monitor and everything seems to be working OK. Therefore, I was wondering if anyone can help me resolve this issue. Thanks Yousaf yeah, replace your failing power supply -dave |
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yeah, replace your failing power supply -dave Thanks for replying, Dave. But why Ubuntu has no problems? |
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Yousaf wrote:
yeah, replace your failing power supply -dave Thanks for replying, Dave. But why Ubuntu has no problems? My experience is, processor power consumption under Linux, can be the same (as low as) the power consumption under Win2K. Win2K seems to be using a HLT instruction in the idle loop. My 2.8GHz P4 draws only 13W when idle in either OS. What made a difference, is the installation of antivirus software. Now, the Windows idle power consumption is higher than it used to be, and by a significant amount. It still doesn't draw the peak power, but it does draw more than the 13W number. By using the RMclock program, and having it install its own idle loop with HLT instruction, the Win2K power consumption again returned to 13W. But only as long as RMClock was being used - after a reboot, without RMClock, but with antivirus software in place, the power consumption returned to its higher level. So Windows can draw more power than Linux, but it really depends on what software is installed. A fresh install of Win2K SP4 should be able to match Linux for power performance. You might want to check the Event Viewer, to see if any errors are being recorded on the reboot. If the power supply is flaky, you might not get any error recorded. Another indicator you can examine, is the green LED on the Asus motherboard. It monitors +5VSB. The green LED on the motherboard is not supposed to blink or glitch. It should provide a steady light, as long as the switch on the rear of the computer is in the ON position. If you see the green LED wink out for a fraction of a second, just as the Windows desktop appears, then that tells you the power supply is bad. Paul |
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"Yousaf" wrote in message ... yeah, replace your failing power supply -dave Thanks for replying, Dave. But why Ubuntu has no problems? Yeah, I've run several distros of linux myself. They all have one thing in common, they use far fewer resources than windows does, which translates to lower power consumption than windows. -Dave |
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Thanks for replying Dave and Paul
It seems it isn't a power supply issue. I bought a new ATRIX 650T 650W, and windows did exactly the same as what it used to do with the old power supply. Thanks goodness Linux is working so far so I can back up all my data. I'll try to repair windows, and if that does not work, I'll clean install it. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do before I do that? Yousaf |
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Yousaf wrote:
Thanks for replying Dave and Paul It seems it isn't a power supply issue. I bought a new ATRIX 650T 650W, and windows did exactly the same as what it used to do with the old power supply. Thanks goodness Linux is working so far so I can back up all my data. I'll try to repair windows, and if that does not work, I'll clean install it. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do before I do that? Yousaf Have you tested your system with Prime95 from mersenne.org ? Prime95 is a mathematics application. But it has a nice testing procedure called the "Torture Test". Prime95 program is available for Linux and for Windows. When the Torture Test runs, it does math calculations with a known answer. The answer is checked, to detect problems with the CPU or the system memory. Prime95 is more sensitive to memory problems, than memtest86+. If Prime95 stops immediately, with an error, then you know that your Linux install is not stable enough for serious computing usage. Typically, a user might work on their memory settings, to correct it. Paul |
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OK, I'll try that. Thanks.
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