Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

> > Be interested to hear from anyone else this has
> ever
> > happened to.
> >
> > Maxim
>
> Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do
> you mean you're installing
> to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk?
> Do I understand right
> that the installation of XP went OK but booting
> fails? Or are you trying to
> boot an installed XP from vmware?

vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will.

>
> Anyway, my experience with such sudden failures were
> usually linked to either
> processor heat or Power Supply being not strong
> enough. But it was never
> linked to vmware.
>
> Thierry

I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250, not playing nice w/XP. As I said earlier the only thing installed was the video drivers. Both sets of XP drivers were tried, the ones that come with XP and the ATI ones that came on a CD with the card. When _no_ video drivers are installed the PC doesn't commit suicide. When either set of available XP drivers are tried the PC randomly dies.

If it's the PS surely gentoo would fail as well since I run that(with the gentoo-ATI drivers BTW) for days on end without a problem running various players, merging software, moving files etc.

Too much heat? Well, it was running hot as a matter of fact earlier before XP started to tank. The CPU was covered with thick brown dust but cleaning it out didn't help.

To test my theory, today I ordered an nVidia Geforce vid card off eBay.

I should know in a couple weeks how accurate the diagnosis ;)

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