I know support for XP was supposed to end yesterday, but I got security updates this morning.
I'm also having a problem with Windoze7 that I haven't been able to figure out. The only hard-drive failures I've ever encountered happened at boot up, so I try to minimize that by keeping my computers powered up all the time. The waste heat also helps to warm the house in the winter. My computer keeps shutting down. When I restart it, I get a message telling me the battery reached its critical limit and windows saved itself to disk. It's acting like a laptop that's been left unplugged. I don't understand this. It's a "desktop" system plugged into a 2000VA UPS (online double-conversion) and I haven't had a power failure that lasted more than an eye-blink for months & months & months (since before I built this system). I do have the UPS monitoring software installed on the system, but according to the log files that's not what is shutting it down. The UPS is less than 2 years old, and I have verified that the batteries inside it are good. They're still under warranty. Google hasn't been much help. I did find one article that suggested turning power management off, which I did, but that hasn't helped. I still don't know where it thinks it's getting this low battery signal from? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
