Re: Boy, did I screw up!

Good Idea, I'll try looking for my problem in bios.. I do have the
unit pluged into the wall, but I seem to remember reading in the
online manual that the laptop runs off of the battery always, and the
battery is recharging during that period. I may be wrong on that..
Thanks for the help. I'll let you know what I can figure out.

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:08:17 GMT, Barry Watzman
<WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>First, screensavers do not shut down computers, they just turn off the
>screens. Something else is going on.
>
>Also, there is no screensaver, and no other type of energy management,
>in Windows setup.
>
>But the laptop itself may have power management settings in the BIOS.
>Next time it reboots, you need to "catch it" when it reboots and get
>into bios setup and if there are any settings, you need to change them
>to not be an issue.
>
>However, I'm skeptical of your analysis of what is happening.
>
>Also, don't do a Windows install while running on battery power.
>
>
>ronnieholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I got a dell latitude x200 off of ebay. Great machine, works 100% to
>> replace my sony that I've been using 4 years.
>> Anyway, I decided to upgrade form 2000 to xp pro.
>> Put in my new legal disk, and started the upgrade process. Pro 2000
>> had a couple of neat programs I wanted to keep, so I didn't run a
>> clean install.
>> Problem: the screensaver is set at 4 minutes. I didn't know that.
>> I'm half way through installing xp, and when it get to loading device
>> drivers, it reboots after 4 minutes and comes back to 39 min left,
>> installing drivers.
>> I've killed a hard drive before by stopping a windows install by
>> pulling the plug, and I'm in limbo with the screensaver constatly
>> going back to 39 minutes left.....
>> Is there any way I can uninstall xp, get back to 2000 pro and disable
>> the screensaver? Any Ideas would be appreciated.
>> Regards,
>> Ron

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