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Posted by on November 23, 2006, 10:41 pm
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that I had laying around, disabled the port on the MB and everything's
good to go. This should continue to work right? Should I be concerned
about the rest of the MB going or is usually an isolated thing. MB's
about 3 years old.
Thanks to everyone who replied.
Robert Heiling wrote:
> rred_@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > Sorry I should have been more specific.
> >
> > Yes, by plugging in I mean powering up. The cable modem is connected
> > via ethernet, not USB.
> >
> > As for how far the computer getson start up, it's usually starting
> > Windows when it shuts off. If you think of the screen that comes up
> > showing "Windows XP" with the little status bar underneath that
> > repeatedly goes from left to right until the desktop appears it pretty
> > consistently completes the "left to right" sequence 7 times and then
> > shuts down (my father in law counted them). I tried starting in safe
> > mode but got the same result.
> >
> > By "wonky" I mean the picture on the monitor gets wavy and distorted
> > (colors out of phase). It looks like interference, you know like in
> > the old days when you're TV wasn't tuned in properly. I too thought it
> > was electrical, and I'm still open to that. It just seems to weird to
> > start happening all of a sudden,when as far as I know, nothing's
> > changed in the way the equipments is set up.
>
> Sort of. It's been accumulating dust all along and might have hit a critical
> threshold. I say that because you haven't mentioned opening up the box and
> blowing it out. You've mentioned Dell, so I suppose it has motherboard
graphics,
> but if it has an actual video card with its own cpu & fan, that could be
clogged
> up.
>
> > I do wonder about the
> > house heat causing something, I may have to grill pop-in-law to see if
> > anything's changed along those lines.
>
> That would add to the problem per above.
>
> > Also that fact that it stops at the same point of start up almost every
> > time makes me think it's happening when Windows loads a driver or
> > allocates resources for the modem. On the other hand every once in a
> > while you get through to the desk top and the icons load up, everything
> > looks good and then bam! it turns off. So I'm getting some conflicting
> > results. I tried booting off the XP disk, thinking that the monitor
> > driver file was corrupted somehow, but again it would shut down while
> > starting Windows.
>
> When restarting and as you would hit F8 to get the menu to go into Safe Mode,
> enable Boot Logging instead, which I think will show the point of failure.
>
> > I know enough to be dangerous, plus a little more as I sell software
> > for a living, but I'm pretty stumped. I will bring my modem over
> > tomorrow and see what happens.
>
> Understand that you will not be able to use your modem for the internet as its
> MAC Address is registered elsewhere. Its only help will be as an electrical
> connection and I personally doubt that you have any problems in that regard.
>
> > I may also lug a monitor over there
> > just to check everything-the monitor is a Dell made in 99. I'm also
> > bringing my laptop,so I can get info from the net (you guys) while I'm
> > fighting it. The modem does work fine on a laptop, so it's not
> > completely screwed.
>
> If that's the case, then it's obviously not screwed at all.
>
> > I'm guessing that possibly somehow the anti-virus
> > program or IE upgrade changed the resource allocation and now the modem
> > and monitor are conflicting. I have no idea why those programs would
> > do that, but I do know Microsoft seems to like to mess with as much of
> > the system as they can when they upgrade their stuff (especially IE).
> > It may have something to do with increased security. I haven't seen
> > anything like this anywhere though.
> >
> > Also I had them do a system restore to before the upgrades but that
> > didn't help. I'll likely do that myself first thing tomorrow, pushing
> > it back until last week (there's nothing important on their computer
> > from that time period). I'll probably spend most of my turkey day in
> > the computer room, but hey, it gets me away from watching the Lions
> > game.
> >
> > I appreciate any and all help you can give me.
>
> Bob
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