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11-23-2003, 08:18 PM
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System in continuous reboot??
Trying to install win xp pro. First install got to the first reboot then it would just loop from the win xp screen and start over. I installed xp on the hard drive in anouther comp. and everything works fine. Put the hard drive back in the original comp. and it just loops again for about 10 times then just freezes. Tried to reinstall and recover but same thing is happening. It is a 2 year old IBM Netvista, 60 gig maxtor,128 ram onboard everything else. Can someone help me before I blow this thing up.
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11-23-2003, 10:04 PM
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I would check to see that all the hardware is on XP's HCL list. Not to mention XP will be slow with onboard video and only 128Mb of ram.
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11-23-2003, 11:58 PM
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I took a look and the hardware is ok. I thought of the ram and put a 512 meg chip in and there was no change. This system came with XP home installed and has worked for a year. So I can't figure out what is causing this to happen. Never seen it before?? Did a bunch of diagnostics and everything was fine(motherboard, cpu etc) Ideas???
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11-24-2003, 12:06 AM
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I belive in XP there is a setting for "reboot on errors" if possible can you boot into a safe mode of sorts and find that setting?
It may require you to put it back in the other machine to find this setting and change it.
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11-24-2003, 12:13 AM
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Thanks, any idea as to where I would find this setting.
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11-24-2003, 02:27 AM
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right click my computer select properties then addvanced then startup and recovery and remove the tick from restart on errors you will then get a blue screan error on your next boot right down the massage and post hear
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11-24-2003, 10:18 AM
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Ok, put it in other machine and turned off the errors.
There was always a blue screen that came up but it wnt by so fast I couldn't read it. Now it stopped on the screen. Heres what it says: Problem detected on hard drive. Check sor virusus, remove new installed hard drives. Check hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDK /F to check for hard drive corruption, then restart. Technical Info: ***Stop:0x0000007B(0xFC938640,0X00000034,0x00000000) I tried installing anouther hard drive in this system that was in my good comp. and it made no differance. Just loaded untill the first reboot of the install process then just looped. Any help you can give me as to how to fix this would be great. As for the error message saying to CHKDK, I presume that is at a command prompt, but I can't get the system to go to a prompt or safe mode??? Thanks |
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11-24-2003, 03:11 PM
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try this link for some clues http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
all so you say the computer came with xp home installed did you get a recovery disk with it ? |
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11-24-2003, 09:27 PM
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Checked out the site. 1) if there is a boot sector virus how do I go about scanning for it. Do I have to put this drive into my good machine to do so? 2) No it did not come with a recovery disk 3 I've tried to do a system recovery and it asks me for a diskette, how can I create one. 40 read on anouther site that a faulty PS could be the problem by not giving enough juice to start up. Would that be true???
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11-24-2003, 11:28 PM
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Please ignore the above post. I checked and did all that stuff to no avail. Last question. The only thing I have not swapped out yet is the motherboard. If the board or even the bios is faulty could this be the problem. This system would not even boot from my good working hard drive with my good ram that and power supply that I know works and am using right now. Any last ideas before I blow this thing up
) Thanks for all the help.
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11-25-2003, 03:24 AM
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yes it may be a faulty motherboard was you haveing problams befor you tryed to install xp pro
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11-25-2003, 10:14 AM
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Yes, this problem started about 3 or 4 months ago. Minor glitches to reboot looping. After a couple of reboot it would work then just got progressively worse untill todays problems of not starting at all.???
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11-25-2003, 02:04 PM
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as you have tryed every thing elce then its most likley a hardware fault cpu overheating or damaged or motherboard fault
ps: you did try a difrent IDE lead ? |
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11-25-2003, 07:43 PM
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Thats what I was figuring. When you say IDE lead do you mean a different cable or the actual connection to the board?
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11-26-2003, 03:05 AM
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the cable
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11-26-2003, 06:02 AM
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just a thought but i read somewhere that faulty PSU's or PSU's that are not powerful enough can cause frequent reboots.
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11-26-2003, 09:09 AM
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Good point DougL. I have had that happen on a system shortly before the PSU quit.
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11-26-2003, 10:15 AM
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Ok, chanded the cable and no difference. Already tried the PSU with my 300w and no change. I am going to try and find a new MB and chip that would fit in this system and see what happens. Thanks
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