Today I had to reinstall "that other operating system" on my dads computer. Now, whenever the XP Setup got about half way through "Copying files to your hard disk" the computers PC-Speaker made a disgusting croak noise and died solemly. Like, the entire machine just went a cold shutdown like someone hit the powerbar. Now, I tried my legit copy of XP, my pirated copy, everything. Nothing worked. Finally, I decided to boot onto my PCLinuxOS livecd and wipe out the partitions that way instead of using WinXP-Setups' built-in watered down partitioner. Everything worked, the install worked, no more dying, nothing. Just worked. I figured that the Windows partitioner was having trouble creating the filesystem properly, right?
Well, now, here I am at the machine, and all of a sudden, it croaks, and dies again! Right in the middle of a huge video-rip. Sounds intense, but for this machine, its not really. Now, right away I think, "Oh, I'm overloading it" - well, not the case, because the WinXP-Setup would always die in the exact same place. So that's kind of a coincidence.
So does anyone know what this is? The sound the PC Speaker makes is kind of a loud-low note, then fades out and the machine dies.
Thanks!
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pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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