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03-30-2003, 11:59 AM
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What causes a restart loop?
I worked on cleaning up a friend's computer a little while ago, and it had an interesting problem. If I performed a restart, it ran into a loop where it went through POST, then went back and repeated, and repeated, and repeated... until I cut the power and started it up with the on button.
He was running win98FE on an old hodge-podge AMD upgraded build. Sorry, I don't have anymore system specs than that. Does anyone happen to know any possible causes as to why comps sometimes enter a reboot loop?
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03-31-2003, 10:57 AM
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I've seen this happen with a psu ready to go south, and also with loose cables...
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03-31-2003, 11:47 AM
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Ditto from what Dan said... in my experience it was an underpowered AND old psu that just needed to be replaced with a better model...
my 2 cents 
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03-31-2003, 09:21 PM
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PSU... hmmm...
It's been performing the restart loop since their last upgrade about a year ago. Could it be RAM? There are 3 different sticks. |
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04-01-2003, 11:20 AM
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well, only reason i mentioned it could be the psu... is because you said it was upgraded.... depending on what they upgraded, it could've caused an additional power drain that the psu was not capable of handling due to wattage or just plain being old... in my case, upgrading the video card pretty much killed the psu (but not quite) til i scrapped it and got one that was more than qualified... (it had some measly 120 watt or something!!)...
could it be RAM? yep, definitely... as some systems are particular on RAM sticks being of the same manufacturer... odd, but true, so i'd try using different RAM stick combinations and see if the problem crops up... Good luck
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