Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Chris January" To: Subject: RE: cygwin rebooting computer Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:28:31 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes > I am a big fan of cygwin and has just learned the TAB completion thing. > > Now, my harddisk is partitioned in 2 so sometimes (not always) > when doing cd /cygdrive/d TAB, teh computer goes black = softboot = reset > > Am I doing anything wrong or what Try looking in the System event log ('Control Panel'->'Administrative Tools'->'Event Viewer' then click System) to see if that sheds any light on the crashes. Assuming you are using Windows XP: Try opening 'Control Panel'->'System'. Then 'Advanced' tab->'Settings'. Uncheck 'Automatically restart'. Next time you should see a blue screen instead of the computer rebooting. See if this helps you solve the problem. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/