I have had that happen before when a BIOS only partially supports boot from USB. Have you booted from USB on that system before?

Do you have a CD you could burn the iso to and try. That sounds so... old fashioned, but I have a couple of 10 yr old dell workstations that don't properly USB boot that I used before I discovered I could replace them with a couple of RasPis.

Mac

Michael wrote on 10/3/19 3:47 PM:
 Yepers.... just notes.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:03 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
No, just notes.  at least from the looks of them.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:05 AM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:
Are those your passwords on the sticky notes?


On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 4:53 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
what a mess my computer desk is

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 7:50 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
20191002_193516_01.jpg

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:36 PM <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> what do you advise I do...
Call Geek Squad?   8)

Can you send me a picture of the screen you get?
Memetest is (or was) prtty straight forward.
Even *I* could use it!   ;-)
ET


Michael writes:

>  Okay e t I bought a USB drive and ran the command 2 put the memtest on it
> but when I boot it gets to verifying DMI pool and just sits . I've had a
> going for about 15 minutes and nothing's happened what do you advise I do
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2019, 6:38 AM <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> You only need 500MG.
>> A USB HD that size will be cheaper than the can of air.
>> Buy one too!
>> ET
>>
>>
>> Michael writes:
>>
>> > all the fans are working. I'll try the memtest.... I don't have a spare
>> usb
>> > drive large enough.....
>> > $ sudo dd if=memtest86-usb.img of=/dev/sdc
>> > dd: writing to '/dev/sdc': No space left on device
>> > 128001+0 records in
>> > 128000+0 records out
>> > 65536000 bytes (66 MB, 62 MiB) copied, 21.5638 s, 3.0 MB/s
>> > bmike1@MikesBeast:/tmp$
>> > I'll take care of it tomorrow
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:48 PM <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I agree that heat is a big suspect, but it could also be some creative
>> >> video
>> >> driver or a bad memory.
>> >> Give memtest a try:
>> >> https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-usb.zip
>> >> ET
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Matthew Crews writes:
>> >>
>> >> > On 9/28/19 4:31 PM, Michael wrote:
>> >> >> Thank you so much for the help I really truly appreciate it.
>> >> >
>> >> > No problem, its what we are here for.
>> >> >
>> >> >>     Does it reboot while you are using it? Are you using very
>> intensive
>> >> >>     applications on it, or very not-intensive applications?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So far it has only only reboot. after I load Chrome. And it doesn't
>> >> >> happen all the time  usually it will load the Chrome and it will
>> reboot
>> >> >> then open it again and then it will be fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > Chrome is notoriously resource intensive. Maybe give Chromium or
>> Firefox
>> >> > a try.
>> >> >
>> >> > But based on that answer I'm leaning towards a fan failure first. As
>> you
>> >> > said you are currently in Miami, so when you get back definitely check
>> >> that.
>> >> >
>> >> > Could also be simple dust accumulation, something a can of air can
>> fix.
>> >> > That is something that is obvious to see when you look.
>> >> >
>> >> > There are a few other possible things to check, but lets rule out the
>> >> > simple stuff first before we dive deeper.
>> >> >
>> >> > -Matt
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