Computer Rebooting at Windows Screen

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RyBoy

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Hello, I have no idea why but my computer reboots every time it gets to the windows screen (blue bar goes across once, it flashes a blue screen really fast, then reboots). I've made sure all the connections are secure, removed ram sticks one at a time to see if a stick has gone bad, and checked the bios for anything suspicious. This system is not (and cannot) be overclocked and I've made no changes to it at all. Any ideas would be great as I really need to get this computer working.

Specs:
intel 2.66ghz proc
intel motherboard
ati 9600se
western digital 160gb
2x512mb pc2700 mushkin ram
thermaltake purepower 420w
live soundcard
 
Try booting in safe mode. Press F8 just after your BIOS is finished posting. If you can get to your desktop, then one of your device drivers is muckin' it up. You'll need to uninstall that device driver, reboot and reinstall. After you're in safe mode, check the event log for possible reasons.
 
Okay, I forgot to mention. The same thing happens when I go into safe mode. So, it isn't a device driver. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the power did go out two days ago, however I do have the computer power supply connected to a surge protector. Any help is HIGHLY appreciated.
 
RyBoy said:
Okay, I forgot to mention. The same thing happens when I go into safe mode. So, it isn't a device driver. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the power did go out two days ago, however I do have the computer power supply connected to a surge protector. Any help is HIGHLY appreciated.
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Fresh XP install? You probably don't want to hear that, but if it's been a while... it's a good idea. I don't have any more bright ideas off the top of my head.
 
Inspect the mainboards physical components, ie capacitors, power fets etc, they sometimes fail..
 
When your booting up the computer you can press F8 and there is an option to disable reboot on failure (or something along thoes lines). That way when the blue screen appears you can read what is going on. Then post back here with what it says.
 
what you should do is press F8 on boot and then use the Last Known Good Configuration. If that doesn't work you are pretty much fucked because Windows itself has taken damage (cross your fingers that it is just the software that has taken a dump and not a hardware issue).

I would suggest yanking that drive out of that box, putting it into the PC you are using now as a slave and copying all your critical information off of that drive to the HD in this box. Once that is done, run a thorough scandisk just to be safe, then put the old drive back into the busted pc and do a complete format/reinstall (assuming the drive is still good).

Sorry the news isn't cheerier but at least you should be able to recover the deap PC within a few hours.

Good luck
 
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