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    Odd question, machine freezes when running DOS

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Arla, May 25, 2005.

  1. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    My Laptop (Toshiba 1955-S805) has a very perculier problem, and I'm just wondering if anyone could throw and possible light on it (hopefully this is the right forum, it appeared to be)

    If I turn on the machine after it was off all night and try to reimage the hard drive (using either the Manufacturer provided Ghost image, or my own) it works fine. If I try to reimage the machine after a day of using the machine (still turning it off and on, only it's been on most of the day) the machine seems to lock up.

    Now, the machine doesn't lock up if I just use windows (no matter how long it's been on) it seems to work just fine booting to a Linux CD, it just seems to be booting to DOS (and I had this issue when trying to use Ghost that I could boot to dos, but then after a certain time, no matter what, the machine would freeze) the machine locks up after a bit of time.

    I've installed the latest BIOS, checked the memory (with MEMTEST86) made sure the Hard drive seems to be fine, I'm just at a loss for what causes this very perculier behaviour, anyone have ideas?

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    Not sure and not sure, let me ask this, is there any way you know of that I can stop DOS running at full load? It wouldn't surprise me if it was overheating given that it's a pentium 4 and definately runs hot (next laptop will DEFINATELY be a cooler laptop).

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    what you're describing seems like over heating. You have a pentium 4, right?

    DOS simply runs the CPU at full load even if it actually doing nothing, and hence could be leading to crash.

    In windows, have you ever used your CPU at full load for prolonged periods? was there a problem?

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    I don't think that that is doable in DOS. + you have (correct if I am wrong) the P4 generation that doesn't support speed steping, so the only thing your CPU supports is just crashing before hitting thermal death. It cannot decrease its speed as it over heats to avoid the eventual crash.

    Toshiba seem to be more prone to overheating from what I hear.

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