After a bit of a nasty electrical storm, a client WinXP Box is
acting up a bit.
The modem was cooked and now shutdown is restarting instead of shutting
down.
I did a shutdown -s -f from the CLi
and a chkdsk /r .
What else could I do if the above does not resolve this issue?
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Bring the "affected" PC to a local repair shop (not a "big box"
store.) The "fried" modem is just the start of the "cooked"
components. Your PC has more problems!
That advice will almost surely mean recommendation will be to buy another pc
if there's multiple problems not more or less easily solved
If
motherboard is "suspect" it becomes throwing money in a hole so if go that
route think before spending cash on hardware that can't be used in a new pc,
e.g. a hard disk can become a slave in new pc, replace onboard video of new
pc with PCI-e card from existing one.
Try to make a backup (preferably a cloned image) of the hard disk if you go
that route.
To add more ... I recently also suffered power outage. PC was on at the
time. When power came back few minutes later, went to look and upon startup
got a blank monitor with no signal. In short, it took out the video card and
made the hard disk start acting suspect. Replaced video card, bought another
hard disk and thankfully original stayed together long enough to clone it to
the new disk. Made new disk master and viola back to before problems. Put
original hard disk in as a slave and sure enough it was sent back to Western
Digital following week.
As PC was still running original install from many years ago and a lot of
software, some "suspect" has come and gone, I did decide to do a clean
re-install (legit XP Pro-SP2, then immediately SP3). That's resulted in
mostly minor problems, none hardware related. Each being solved one at a
time (IRPStackSize registry entry as one for those that know
using
primarily Event Viewer as a guide for any problems past the obvious. It's
taken more or less a week now but pc is acting better than ever.
