I Can't!
it won't "stay on" long enuf for me to do anything!! it fails to go into safe mode, it makes it sometimes (normal boot), to the piont where widows is open and starting up the start ups and services and then goes back to "sleep".
****i use the words sleep and hibernate only because its what it appears to be doing, i disabled hibernate a long time ago and set everything in the power section to off along time ago and it still did it!***********
i only said i was "computer literate" so you can get down and dirty if you need and you won't lose me.
After i replaced the cd-rom, it stayed on long enuf for me to restore, reboot and it started doing it again. i guess the only reason i thought it was windows in the first place is beacause if i go into bios it will stay on as long as i want, however when i boot into windows it does the sleep thing....
is this maybe a hardware thing?
when your are in bios does it write to the hard drive?
could my harddrive be going bad?
like when it tries to write to it and it get confussed and it just essentially shuts down?
could my power supply be on the brink? like when i write to the hard drive it uses more voltage or amps and overloads the ps and causes it to go it to some type of limp mode??
am i posting in the wrong section?
I'm sorry i am new to this forum.
Thanks for the help!
Randy