constant restarting

zaccary

zaccary

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Hello.
Ok the scenario is like this. One day I was playing a game. Now sometimes this game crashes and the system restarts. No big deal. but the other day, the same thing happened, BUT, this time when it got to the windows load-up screen, you know with the moving bar at the bottom and the windows logo in the middle, the system restarted again, and again and again. No matter what I do it won’t work.
I change hard-drives, take out and put back the little battery, check the cables and so on.

This, or what I think was this, happened on a friend’s computer and he said it may have been something to do with a blown capacitor on his mother board.

As additional info, I was playing said game online if that means anything.

I hope this problem can be easily resolved.

Zac
 
Seems as though there may be a problem with a corrupt registry or some sort of driver issue.. Can you go into safe mode? Press F8 when loading XP in the POST (power on self test) you will be taken to a boot preference screen.. select safe mode.. Once in safe mode if this is achieveable you could try using system restore to go back to a previous point where everything was fine. Alternatively you could try to disable the auto-restart on error option which could be making this happen. Right click my computer->properties->advanced tab->start up and recovery.. settings-> untick automatically restart.
Goodluck :)
 
Unfortunately I can not enter safe mode. It restarts just the same.
I am still convinced that it is a hardware problem although the corrupted driver theory is a possibility.
 
The exact same thing happened to my laptop. It happened immediately after I turned on automatic updates (after not downloading updates for a looong time). The only solution I was able to do was... reformat.
 
You could try a repair install.. but if you have important files on your HDD then i would reccomend putting the drive into another computer with a working OS installed.. backing up your files to cd or thumb drive ect. then putting the drive back into your PC, insert the winxp cd (change bios to boot from cd as first boot priority if this is not already selected - press "del" key when you first turn on the PC) then when the cd boots select repair. Hopfully your files will stay in tact and you will end up with a working OS again.. if this doesnt work.. you may be right in thinking its a hardware issue.. possibly memory. Let us know how you get on :)
 
if the above don't work for you, your assumption on the hardware is a pretty good one, hopefully you have already looked for the blown caps but take a look again, the other problem can be a bad power supply, if you can get a power supply from a friend that matches the one you have or close to the one you have.
 
ok
i dont think it was a hard ware problem
i repaired windows on one of my hdd's and it now works ok.
thank you all for your help :cool: :cool:
 
yea, make sure that in the c:\ that files are hidden, otherwise you could accidentilly delete boot files (which are important to the booting of XP) if you delete these files then this is the result, and that is the procedure to fix it
 
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