Netbook keeps rebooting

Toshiba NB205 or w/e, windows 97 OS. Turned it on a minute ago, it booted up fine, suddenly rebooted before I touched a single thing. I think both my SD card and USB drive were in.

Um, odd. It loaded by itself, so I went about my business, praying it didn't flake on me, 10 minutes later it did. Kept telling me I had an SD card in (drive F, atm) which I did, but I pulled the pictures off it and was done with that. It kept asking (twice) if I wanted to open files to view things (after initial time).

I also had a USB drive in, and was saving files on and off of that, including directly of Microsofts photoeditor.

Going to back up holiday photos right now. Someone please help before the darn thing dies and I've lugged 3.5lbs to Europe for naught and no longer can d/l photos off the one camera until I get home. :\

Can do.

And that's possible, as I've placed the SD card in there before and the computer failed to read it, and not for want of processing speed or ram (seemingly)

I forgot to mention I got the blue screen of death very briefly, which got my hackles up, letmetellyou

Medievalist said:

Gah.

You know how to safe book and run a utility check?

ETA: If it is a device-not-being-released properly by an application or the OS, that could mess things up enough to give you the blue screen as a sort of hiccough.

So don't panic, but yeah, backing up is good.

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Safe boot yeah (well, I'll figure it out as I go, heh). Utility check, not really. Is it with system information and the ilk on the start menu? (I can always google it when I get back). I should prolly be running my malware and figuring out how to update AVG w/o a direct connection to the internet too just to be sure.

It worked okay last night while I foolishly read my ebook.

Xvee said:

Windows 97 may require driver downloads for your usb devices to work proper. Try google to see if you can get drivers for them.

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Yeah, damn Toshiba did one thing wrong on this machine and that's drivers. It just got an update when some malware took out the ...bios? and I had to take it in. I'm good at breaking things *scratches head*

Matera the Mad said:

Windows 97 ???WTF??? Is 98? Is Windows 95 OSR2? Or...whatever, with Office 97?

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Um, sure. All these stupid numbers. I have Office 97 for certain, and the modern windows that isn't Vista or 7

Oh yeah, XP. That's the bugger.

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Ah, good, I shall get those definitions as soon as I get the usb on Computer 2 to work.

Yes, the USB drive stopped working. Suddenly.

Perhaps a virus on the jump drive??? All those dirty computers I was linking in vet school...

Okay, so current situation:

Computer 1: Reads jump drive. Read SD card after a few 'jiggles'. No blue screen of death. Ran some checkdisk and some AVG and somethingsomething Care (Windows One Care???) to look at the registry and whatnots. All great, right? Well the damn thing suddenly wouldn't connect to my big camera's memory card (via usb) no matter how I plug it in, even after a reboot. Was working fine yesterday. Damn.

Oh, and I ran a malware program and it found my windows updates were off. So that's fixed. Except the part where one needs internet to get updates.

Computer 2: Running XP, completely in Czech. I don't know any Czech. So my grandmother had to translate to Polish and try to explain it to me. She doesn't even know the word hardware. Are you laughing yet? I'm getting ahead of myself.

Okay, so mouse suddenly stopped working. If I plug it in and jig it up, the mouse flashes me (not as exciting as it could be), and I get an error message. The message says: Hardware, something something USB broken. Windows can not recognize (spelling dire, sorry). Something something, click here to fix. Well that opens a window and the subheading above the one that says Something Port is in bold. Well darned if I see anything that looks like a solution there.

Now, if you aren't on your sides rolling on the floor, I definitely need help here. The jump drive wont read at all and I'm at my wits end.

Computer 1 has 3 usb drives and Computer 2 (Dell Latitude) has 1. (No, seriously. 1)

Computer 2 is also about to get AVG, antimalware and whatever else you folks prescribe. Hopefully someone can help me by the time I'm done playing with all that.

This needs to be filed somewhere under 'How I spent my summer vacation' x.x

*sigh*

Well, the fan seems unlikely b/c it wasn't hot when it flaked and it is hot now and doing fine (Yep, computer 1 has interwebs)

The SD port could certainly be messed up, but both computers have been funky with their USB drives. It's conceivable that no one has touched the USB port on Computer 2 until I came (just the mouse remained plugged in) and I thus sent it to its doom, but I dunno.

Also, after doing scans on computer 1 and rebooting, it now reads the camera. In fact, it's doing everything it is supposed to.

So why is computer 2 still being dumb? I ran AVG (found firefox plugin virus or somesuch) and Malwarebytes (nothing) and still it just sits there.

Also, it's downloading some updates from microsoft. I'm praying for a magic fix in the morning??? Grr.