PC shuts down in Dos Mode

[JohanD]

I have a Lenovo Think Centre.  It is part of an Kodak Kiosk with Win XP Embedded Installed.  The Pc boots up correctly into Windows but when I boot the PC into DOS it starts, runs for a minute and then shuts down.  Please note this is not from running the dos command prompt in windows. It is only when the PC is booted into Dos.

I have made a dos bootable USB and after booting into Dos, Ghost.exe is run from the USB.  Ghost then starts but within a few seconds the PC Shuts down.

It does not shut down when it boots from the Hard Drive into Windows XP so it is not a overheating problem.

Can anyone shed some light onto this matter and why running Dos would shut the PC Down

[Geek-9pm]

You are using the embedded version of XP.  Both the OS and the hardware are different from the average PC system  that most of us use every day.

If you need to backup data, use some other method. Ghost was not written for embedded computers.

Kodak Kiosk with Win XP Embedded Installed.

Therefore is is not an IBM compatible PC. It is a Kodak Kiosk. The OS is in ROM. So not all BIOS features are the same.

Do you have a SDK or developers manual for the  Kiosk?

[JohanD]

Well I managed to hook up an external DVD and install the Ghost Backup and applications from there.  It just seemed strange to me that the PC would boot from the USB I made, but then just Shut Down.  Surely if you boot from Dos with an external device the installed operating system cannot have any effect.  The Kiosk has an IBM Lenovo Think Centre which can be entirely removed from the kiosk.

But than you the question is no purely academic

[Geek-9pm]

So you have a

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IBM Lenovo Think Centre But it has embedded XP?
Embedded means that it is part of the BIOS, It IS the Bios. Are you sure it the embedded version of XP?
Does the Lenovo have a hard drive?

Companies like IBM and Kodak have the resources and motives for making propitiatory devices that are not just knock-offs of a standard PC or Laptop. And even some of the old IBM think pads do not has a BIOS that you would recognize.

I have a book  that devotes pages and pages to the BIOS software interrupts of the original IBM PC.  Any current version of DOS and a DOS based program will invoke many of those calls. If just one has be altered for a special purpose, that would be enough to crash the system.

What I am saying is I think you are at a Cul-de-sac and you need to use other tools for what you want to do.
But I am often wrong.  Anybody?