computer on constant restart cycle

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Up until a few days ago, when I turn on the computer, it shows the bios splash screen, then the table that shows the hardware info like cpu, cd drives etc. etc. then it says
verifying dmi pool....(I think it says that), then it starts the windows splash screen. But now, as soon as it starts saying 'verifying dmi pool....' the computer restarts. This happens everytime, never gets past it. There have been no hardware changes. Not sure why this is happening. Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
Check your capacitors on the motherboard if they are bulging.

I had an IBM Ispirati that'd do the same except it'd just crash.
 
i got one that does the same damn thing(brand new), i tried unplugging all power, then holding the power button for a minute to drain caps, but it still gives me the looping restart. It only does this when i do a reboot from windows, to fix i gotta manually hold power button for 5 seconds after the loop to kill power and then just hit power again.Very annoying.
 
All of the capacitors are fine. I don't see any problems physically inside the box.
 
This ended up happening to me on my old laptop. Sadly I ended up having to use the Recovery disc to repair Windows. I would sugest trying to do the same, or try a clean install of it.
 
Sorry for the late post, I was away early this week. Tonight I started the computer up with the windows cd to install fresh. It got to where it says 'setup is copying files (xxxxx)' at the bottom (at the very beginning) and as soon as it hit 'Kernel Debugger DLL' it restarted. I tried 4 or 5 times with the exact same result. I turned the computer off, unplugged the hard drive (IDE and molex) restarded and booted windows cd. It got past copying all the files, then it says 'Setup is starting Windows' and then it restarts itself. Same thing for 3 or 4 tries. Does this mean that it got as far as it can go without a hard drive and my hard drive is corrupt? Or is something else wrong?
 
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