On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:31:34 GMT, rw wrote:


Charlie Bress wrote:
A neighbor has a Gateway Celeron based system running WIN98. This box is
about four years old.
When he turns it on it will sometimes shut down before the desk top appears.
Repeated attempts to start it may meet with success. He just sent me a note
that this morning it took 6 tries before it finally came up running.

Any suggestions. Power supply is suspect, of course, but what else might be
telling it to shut down?

Charlie


I would try to use a win98 bootdisk just to see if this is the PC
or WIN98. The bootdisk should run intil u see the a: prompt.
If u get to that point then WIN(* is suspect.


Booting dos won't test any cards other than the video board.

If it boots dos, try windows with just the video board and then reinstall
the other boards one at a time.

If it doesn't boot dos, minimize the system to just the motherboard,
cpu, memory, and video board. Disconnect all the drives. Leave the
bios screens running and there are any spontanious reboots.