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Computer passes boot screen, then restarts

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Kitt2003

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hey guys, one of my older computers is having a little problem. it's actually the computer my sister uses all the time, but that doesnt really matter. anyways, last night she went to go turn it on but instead of booting to windows xp normally, it just restarts after the boot screen finishes. it happened out of nowhere. same thing happens in safe mode.

its a 900Mhz Athlon (forgot the chipset) with 256MB SDRAM and Windows XP SP2. Auto updates on. Norton Antivirus is installed. it's the only OS on the system.

if anyone could help out even a little bit that would be greatly appreciated.
 
disable "reboot at bluescreen" in BIOS. then tell us what you see when the BSOD comes up.
 
starhawk said:
disable "reboot at bluescreen" in BIOS. then tell us what you see when the BSOD comes up.
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only thing I found was "Halt on" which was set to "All errors". I changed it no "No errors" and the computer still restarts. I'm confused.
 
oof. now we get to the fun stuff.

full system specs? (not the vague ones but full specs)
 
Hit F8 (i think), as soon as you turn the computer on then just keep pressing it (don't hold it down), a lot of people miss this window of time; to view the boot up options, try to select "last config that worked" or safe mode if you know what kind of nasty programs to look for and delete / fix.

I used to get this when i upgraded omega drivers.
 
starhawk said:
oof. now we get to the fun stuff.

full system specs? (not the vague ones but full specs)
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Alright... it's going to be a little hard to remember, seeing as how I never use the computer

AMD Athlon 900Mhz w/ ThermalTake CopperOrb HSF (no OC)
Iwill KK266-R Plus Motherboard
VisionTek GeForce 2 Ti
Toshiba 256MB PC133 SDRAM
Western Digital 20GB 7200 rpm
Linksys regular Ethernet Card (no wireless)
Lite-On DVD-ROM
External CD burner (almost never used - probably doesn't matter)

...all in a full size Antec Performance series tower w/ 300W PSU (I'm pretty sure)



EDIT: In addition to trying to boot in safe mode, I also selected the last working configuration with no luck.
 
starhawk said:
try a higher-wattage psu.
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Hmmm. I honestly feel 300W is enough. Even so, it's been working fine for the past however many years since I built this computer and for it to, all of a sudden, not be sufficient enough to power it up doesn't make much sense to me, though you never know, you could be completely right.
 
This has happened to me a lot. Windows XP isn't the easiest OS to fix when it refuses to boot. There are a couple of things you can try tho. First, you need an XP install CD. Pop the cd in, boot to it, and once windows loads all its drivers, you should see something that says "Press R to boot to recovery console" Log on to the install, and type chkdsk /p
That will check the disk for errors, and I've seen it work before. As a last resort, you can try a repair install. To do this, you need an XP install cd. After you agree to the eula, the setup will search for previous windows install, and if you press R the setup will run the repair install. You won't lose any programs or documents but this will remove any updates for windows.
Sometimes it works, most likely windows will at least boot, but sometimes its extremely slow and won't run right. Other times it will run fine. I guess it depends on what the problem is, but good luck!
 
MetsFan978 said:
This has happened to me a lot. Windows XP isn't the easiest OS to fix when it refuses to boot. There are a couple of things you can try tho. First, you need an XP install CD. Pop the cd in, boot to it, and once windows loads all its drivers, you should see something that says "Press R to boot to recovery console" Log on to the install, and type chkdsk /p
That will check the disk for errors, and I've seen it work before. As a last resort, you can try a repair install. To do this, you need an XP install cd. After you agree to the eula, the setup will search for previous windows install, and if you press R the setup will run the repair install. You won't lose any programs or documents but this will remove any updates for windows.
Sometimes it works, most likely windows will at least boot, but sometimes its extremely slow and won't run right. Other times it will run fine. I guess it depends on what the problem is, but good luck!
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Roger that. I'll try that out and post what happens. Thanks. :)
 
k, jus tried the chdsk solution with no luck. i'll definitely try the repair installation only if no other posters come up with any solutions. thanks again though. :)
 
Good news everyone! The repair did the job. I installed all the windows updates again and everything seems fine. Thanks again for the help.
 
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