I came across a problem at the weekend that had me stumped. My PC (Win2000 pro) kept rebooting without warning after about 40 mins. The first 2 occasions I lost a piece of work that I was preparing, and I put the problem down to momentary powercuts or fluctuations as there were thunderstorms all over the place. However, the problem persisted.
Eventually my wife wanted a piece of work from her laptop printing, so she gave me a disc which I went to insert in the floppy drive. The disc would not go in, although the eject button was not in. There was already a disc in the drive which was not fully inserted. I removed the disc, inserted the new one to print, and no more random reboots!
So don't assume that it is a power or software problem - I would never have thought of checking the floppy drive, and even less would I have thought that a partially inserted floppy would cause this type of problem.
Eventually my wife wanted a piece of work from her laptop printing, so she gave me a disc which I went to insert in the floppy drive. The disc would not go in, although the eject button was not in. There was already a disc in the drive which was not fully inserted. I removed the disc, inserted the new one to print, and no more random reboots!
So don't assume that it is a power or software problem - I would never have thought of checking the floppy drive, and even less would I have thought that a partially inserted floppy would cause this type of problem.
