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Constant rebooting, please help!

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JeRi

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hi all...

i came back to my computer a lil over an hour ago, after going to the mall, and apparently the power went out in my house due to a thunderstorm that occurred while i was out. my computer was off, so i turned it back on (it had been turned off because of the power outage in my house, no backup power source :( ) but it wouldn't boot into windows, just froze, so i rebooted. then i was able to get into windows for about 5 seconds, and i get a blue screen of death, somethin about memory unloading or somethin, i didn't write it down (stupid me)....but now i try to turn it on, and all i get is constant rebooting while at the windows loading screen. so it just goes in a loop now, rebooting...


could the power outage have fried something of my hardware? i don't think windows got corrupted, cuz i stil get to windows loading screen, but i just don't know how to isolate the hardware to see what's the problem. any ideas?
 
what would that do for me? help isolate what the problem is? what do i do...sorry, but this is new to me (hardware frying.....)
 
It is a program that will test your components without booting into windows, which is where it sounds like your computer is crashing. You could also try taking out a stick of memory in case one is bad and the other is good (assuming, of course, that you do have more than one memory stick). Also, look at your components to see if any scorch marks are visible. Hope that helps.
 
I'd do what he just mentioned at first. That will test to see if one stick of ram is bad. If that doesn't solve anything, then remove everything but your video card, os hard drive, cpu, ram and motherboard. Then try it again.

On a side note, you did have this plugged in to a surge protector right?
 
If you boot into safe mode it will go through a list of drivers that windows loads. See which one your computer reboots on, and that is the culprit.
 
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