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    D901C with Q6600 shuts down randomly when virtualization enabled

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Bill F, Oct 25, 2009.

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    Bill F Notebook Consultant

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    I have a D901C pre-8800M GTX revision mobo (like September-ish 2007) with the 9/24/2008 BIOS (Its version 1.00.22 I think) that I updated to a few months ago.
    (I can't find the BIOS revision list though :(
    Edit: Found it: http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cach...S+D901C+BIOS+1.00.22&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)

    The system has 8700M GT SLI, a Q6600, and 2 GB dual channel RAM.
    I went in the BIOS and enabled virtualization as I was about to install windows 7 (the beta had worked on this computer many months earlier no problem) and as soon as I turned virtualization on it would shutdown within a few seconds or minutes of turning the laptop on. I was able to successfully get back into the BIOS and change it back finally. (I'm posting from the system now in XP)

    It would reboot even with all USB devices/express cards unplugged.
    I think it must be either a mobo problem or a problem with this particular BIOS (or the CPU is somehow partially fried?).
    Has anyone heard of this issue or know if there is a new BIOS fix for it?
    I never used the hardware virtualization before (I think...) but I don't ever remember it shutting down after turning it on before, don't think this problem happened when I bought it.

    I think the battery and PSU are fine.
     
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    I just discovered the problem happening again even with that BIOS option disabled. Its definitely a warm boot issue.
    I'll clean the whole lappy out soon when I get my new hard drives installed.
    (I'm backing up the data now and once I get a new XP disk burned with acronis and the Esata card drivers I'll be able to swap out all 3 hard drives at once.)
    If the issue still happens maybe I'll need a new mobo or something.

    I'll keep you guys updated. Maybe its time for a cooler running Q9550. ;)
    Its weird that this just started happening out of thin air. The fans still work and I even have a Zalman ZM-NC2000 cooler as well. Its not overheating.
    I don't think the hard drives are failing either. Once I boot into windows its all good even if it gets warm playing UT3 or something.
     
    Bill F, Oct 30, 2009
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