How old is the system? On a Socket A model run heavily for over 1 1/2yrs. the sudden restart was seen right when the first screen with the blue scroll was going to the second during loadup. The system would then come right back up to the same point and restart again. Upon lowering the memory timings in the bios the system at that time started loading normally but at the lower 333mhz then the 400mhz fsb indicating a failing bios chip there. But in your situation it could also be a problem with the boot sector. One way to repair this is to boot from the XP installation disk and choose the "R" for recovery console there. Once at the command prompt you would type in "Fixmbr" and even "Fixboot" if needed. The use of a WIN98 startup floppy can also help with the "fdisk /mbr" command at the dos prompt. Just hope it's a software not hardware problem being seen there. Have you updated the bios at all?
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