Reboot

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Dan C.

I left my system on last nite. When I got up this morning, the system had
rebooted itself, then while starting up, the message" Disk boot
failure,insert system disk and press enter". I powered the machine down,
and all is well.
Why did this happen? The exact same thing happened like 2 or 3 other times.
Each time after i have left it on overnite.
P4 2.8 o/c to 3.15 ghz
Asus AT7max2 ver 2
GF4 4200 ABit Siluro video
WD 200 gig
Corsair XMS mem 512

Thanks for any help
Dan
 
Dan C. said:
I left my system on last nite. When I got up this morning, the system had
rebooted itself, then while starting up, the message" Disk boot
failure,insert system disk and press enter". I powered the machine down,
and all is well.
Why did this happen? The exact same thing happened like 2 or 3 other times.
Each time after i have left it on overnite.
P4 2.8 o/c to 3.15 ghz
Asus AT7max2 ver 2
GF4 4200 ABit Siluro video
WD 200 gig
Corsair XMS mem 512

Thanks for any help
Dan
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is your unit on a UPS?
it could have shut down due to even a momentry power failure...
 
is your machine setup for automatic update?? It will reboot if you set it
for automatically download and update.
 
No, It's NOT on a UPS, and NO, It's not set up for auto updates.
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You have it set to reboot on power failure? If the above is true,
then you are most likely getting power burps in the night which are
causing your machine to shutdown. Change the setting to "power off"
in bios. That way if you wake up and your machine is off, you know
why and you simply turn it on again.



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I left my system on last nite. When I got up this morning, the system had
rebooted itself, then while starting up, the message" Disk boot
failure,insert system disk and press enter". I powered the machine down,
and all is well.
Why did this happen? The exact same thing happened like 2 or 3 other times.
Each time after i have left it on overnite.
P4 2.8 o/c to 3.15 ghz
Asus AT7max2 ver 2
GF4 4200 ABit Siluro video
WD 200 gig
Corsair XMS mem 512

Thanks for any help
Dan
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What operating system?



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I will put the UPS on my wish list...but does that explain why I get the
Invadid boot disk message??



Dan
 
The OS i'm using is WinXp Pro.

Thx
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Before you go spending money.
My Computer/Right click/Properties/Advanced/Startup and recovery and
disable the stupid,"Restart if Error found"option.
If you wish to track down what caused the re-boot.
Clear all event logs and then monitor them and look at them using the
Event Viewer.See XP help on this.
HTH :)





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ok,,

I went into the event viewer and found this:

TrueVector engine: File "C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\IAMDB.RDB" was corrupt and
has been copied to "C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\xDBF.tmp". File
"C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\IAMDB.RDB" was corrupt and has been deleted.
There was a red x by this, I am assuming this is the time it restarted...

Can I delete the contents of c:\windows\Internet logs???? anything useful
in there????

Dan
 
ok,,

I went into the event viewer and found this:

TrueVector engine: File "C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\IAMDB.RDB" was corrupt and
has been copied to "C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\xDBF.tmp". File
"C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\IAMDB.RDB" was corrupt and has been deleted.
There was a red x by this, I am assuming this is the time it restarted...

Can I delete the contents of c:\windows\Internet logs???? anything useful
in there????
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Yes you can delete them as they are just logs.The vent viewer and it's
logs can point to devices/programs and drivers that may be the cause
of a problem.
If you left your system on and it failed to come out of standby
correctly that may have caused a re-boot.Disable the APM in the
BIOS(not the ACPI).
However unless you have your system actually doing something I
wouldn't leave it on overnight :/


Dan
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