OS wont load after microsoft update

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Mangudai

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It just goes into a loop of rebooting if you let it. You can get up to the WIndows XP loading screen then a few seconds later a BSOD shows for a second then the computer reboots. I used the recovery console and the "CHKDSK" command and it found "one or more errors". My question to you all is what would be the next step? Should I attempt "FIXMBR"? I used this command to see what it said and it stated the computer is using a non standard mbr or something to this effect. I figured this is because the disk is partitioned then it warned it was possible to lose data.

This is an older Athlon 3800 x2 rig if it matters.

Help?
 
did you use chkdsk with the /f switch?
if not, it probably only scanned, and didn't attempt to fix anything.

if it's BSOD'ing, I wouldn't expect it to be an issue with the MBR since it is starting Windows.

what happens if you try in safe mode?
 
chkdsk /f did register as a valid entry, i figured you mean chkdsk /r which I ran but I still have the same problem. It wont allow me to go into safe mode it just crashes like it did before.

I disabled automatic reboot and say this error code

stop: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x80536268, 0xF78A23B8, 0xF78A20B4
 
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http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm
0x0000007E: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
A system thread generated an exception which the error handler did not catch. There are numerous individual causes for this problem, including hardware incompatibility, a faulty device driver or system service, or some software issues. Check Event Viewer (EventVwr.msc) for additional information.

The linked http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=873161 sounds sort of similar. Which update(s) did you install? Can you try removing/disabling devices to simplify the system and get it to boot?
 
My brother(its his computer) says he thinks it was SP3 but he thought he already had it but it installed anyway. I'll try taking stuff out and see what happens.
 
That didn't work either, tried this thing where you could go into a reboot loop if you have an amd processor but that route didn't work either he's just gonna have to reformat.

Thanks though.
 
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