Hey Folks,
As much as Nancy and I are still sticks and stones at the office ourselves with XP Pro even for our strong dual Xeon Dell 690 Workstation main machine, my daugher who is into lots of mucking around with art and music, I got her a decent Vostro 3400 I3, 4 gig ram, Machine a couple of years ago I'd say. unfortunately this is 14 year old's computer who she sometimes follows the leads of well intended, geeky friends who are not without some computer smarts but not very concerned about the potential hours of work when things bite the user, owner in the butt.
We run Kaspersky Pure 2 for our internet protection package which I feel is one of the tightest programs of that type I have ever owned, and no ransom demand so it shouldn't be that kind of a problem either. And in general she is smart enough to not trust most suspect things and ask Daddy what to do about them, accept or get rid of somehow, so again probably not that either.
Anyway, the Computer can usually get thru one or two boots almost in full so all black screens and sign in and most stuff on it installed and running too. But not necessarily enough to get it that last couple of items loaded perhaps. And then with NO WARNING at all, boom it just hard crashes in full, full power off like crash with that nails on a chaukboard sound of the little harddrive spinning down fast and hard and praying the auto park for the heads really is do just that...
And as time goes on, if you keep at it trying to boot it over and over again the boot sequence, how deep you can get into it seems to get shorter and shorter, to the point of dying just after log in or even before it, a good ways before it now and again even. So there is not nearly enough time to start looking at any sort of screens for feedback or information, no way to run scans or tests, try a repair program and the like.
To me if seems like perhaps it is something related to "Heat" perhaps, so as the computer repeatedly tries to boot it is getting increasingly hotter internally and therefore the shorter time between attempting to start to hard full loss of power like crash. But that is simply my personal thoughts as a best guess so far here.
So could it be some super dirty or faulty internal system safety heat sensor and are there such things inside more modern computers of self protection like a low oil cut off, high heat in auto trans like places? I also start to think of some sort of hard to get out and wiggle, play with weak plug connection, a failing soilder joint, the main CPU or other mother board related to heat intermidant like problems. Although it could be a corrupt early in the boot sequence and all of this is a read herring. Warrentee is shot so its do it myself, paid bench time Dx'ing above my paygrade or time for our daughter to cope for awhile and eventually get her a new laptop at some point if and when the funds are ever around for such a luxury in the near future (Haaaa!!!).
I did play with the placement of the RAM Dimms both in either slot one at a time as well as both together and no difference so it is probably not the RAM itself but instead its the Motherboard or CPU I would guess at this point other than software anyway.
Thanks so much in advance....
Paul
