Windows XP Pro. Can anyone help stop continual rebooting? TIA

December 21st, 2010 - 04:47 am ET by AsK | Report spam

Windows XP Pro. Can anyone help stop continual rebooting?
This has happened on at least three occasions fairly recently.
I have gone into the "safe mode" setting and have tried all there
with no positive results. I start up, get to the first Windows splash
page and then
it automatically reboots. Any and all hints/tips welcome. TIA
(appologies for cross-posting to alt.windows-xp)

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#11 glee

December 22nd, 2010 - 10:37 am ET | Report spam

"Tim Meddick" wrote in message
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Surely, if you booted into "safe-mode", will not load any auto-started
processes - including those from the "Startup folder" and the
"auto-run" registry-keys.

If you get the error while trying to boot into safe-mode as well,
then, unfortunately, the problem is *not* going to be anything that's
auto-loaded, as nothing but the most basic and essential drivers and
services are loaded when entering safe-mode.

*NB Make sure you choose safe-mode *without* networking, when using
the F8 key, to obfuscate a few more drivers.

If you have any "suspicions" of your own - please don't be shy of
mentioning them - anyone can have important insight and anyone's "gut
feeling" is as valid as anyone else's!

Tim,

The OP already stated in his first post that he tried Safe Mode with the
same result, when the rebooting issue was occurring.

What isn't clear is whether this is an intermittent problem or if it is
happening all the time, making Windows inaccessible altogether.

It "sounds" like he's getting a STOP error and Windows is set to do an
auto-reboot instead of displaying the BSOD (the brainless default
Microsoft set in XP).

Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+
http://dts-l.net/

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