On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies > suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere > between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards > without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. > And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden > shutdown, just churns merrily along for a few moments > then, clunk, the PC stops cold. > > This is a fresh install of XP SP1 with nothing added > except for the (native)9250 ATI drivers. It hasn't > even been on line yet, so it's not a virus. > > It's on sda1, which was freshly formatted NTFS; the > rest of the drive is given over to gentoo which works > fine. > > 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? 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
