My dad has a Sager desktop replacement-style laptop from a few years ago. Its got 2GB of ram (which got some errors after running memtest), runs xp pro, and has a 3.2ghz Pentium 4 w/ HT in it.
He's a pro photographer and takes it on shoots and occaisionally dumps stuff from his compact flash cards from the camera onto the laptop on location.
With almost 100% repeatability, he tells me that if he plugs in his laptop to the wall outlet and tries to boot it, itll go to that screen where you can choose to boot in safe mode, safemode w/ networking, last known good configuration, etc... screen, over and over again. and then maybe on the 4th or 5th time, it'll boot into windows normally.
However, also with 100% repeatability, if he plugs in his laptop to the wall in his office, itll boot fine!
I'm freaking baffled. He told me this a while back and I forgot to ask you all about it. I might be wrong about the memtest thing, but otherwise, that problem definately still occurs.
Any ideas? I dunno if a simple reinstall would fix it. Sounds like a funky powersupply mayhaps?
He's a pro photographer and takes it on shoots and occaisionally dumps stuff from his compact flash cards from the camera onto the laptop on location.
With almost 100% repeatability, he tells me that if he plugs in his laptop to the wall outlet and tries to boot it, itll go to that screen where you can choose to boot in safe mode, safemode w/ networking, last known good configuration, etc... screen, over and over again. and then maybe on the 4th or 5th time, it'll boot into windows normally.
However, also with 100% repeatability, if he plugs in his laptop to the wall in his office, itll boot fine!
I'm freaking baffled. He told me this a while back and I forgot to ask you all about it. I might be wrong about the memtest thing, but otherwise, that problem definately still occurs.
Any ideas? I dunno if a simple reinstall would fix it. Sounds like a funky powersupply mayhaps?
