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swana2k
Recently built myself a new system Athlon XP 3500+, ASUS AV8 delux
motherboard, 1gb RAM. Sound system had no probs
Then got a wireless router and the motherboard has built in wireles
so i wanted to setup a home network which i did, again all no probs
As my comp was now newly connected to the net I updated windows an
AVG etc... when they were complete i had to customarily reboot. Thi
is when i first hit a reboot loop.
Couldnt solve it so formatted and reinstalled XP (figured it was dow
to windows updates
So as i said i figured it was the windows updates so I dloaded al
apart from the most recent. Rebooted & installed. All good n
probs, so i figure ive cracked it...
Spend another hour or so installing apps i use, customising it all ho
i like it. numerous reboots after installations still no probs
Watch a video in media player.... installed cuteftp which i hadnt don
previously so this cant be the prob. rebooted again to complet
installation, windows loads up with the jingle then reboots lik
someone has just turned off the power
No error messages, no blue screens, just power off and on again. No
its stuck in a loop again like this!! Now this seems pretty random t
me and I've now come to conclusion it must be a hardware prob?
The systems not overloaded power wise by the way
I cant boot up in safe mode either cos the standard keys dont seem t
work F8 selects the boot device on my system and the pause/break ke
has no effect
How the hell do i break the loop and isolate the prob?! All the guide
Ive found involve changing settings in windows which i cant get too?
I pretty sure its not a software issue, its not like I installe
something and then the system loops. There are no glitches in th
actual boot sequence it performs the POST actions fine, XP startu
screen fine. Its so odd
Ideas anyone please!!! I'm not reinstalling everything for the 3r
time for it to randomly hot again
motherboard, 1gb RAM. Sound system had no probs
Then got a wireless router and the motherboard has built in wireles
so i wanted to setup a home network which i did, again all no probs
As my comp was now newly connected to the net I updated windows an
AVG etc... when they were complete i had to customarily reboot. Thi
is when i first hit a reboot loop.
Couldnt solve it so formatted and reinstalled XP (figured it was dow
to windows updates
So as i said i figured it was the windows updates so I dloaded al
apart from the most recent. Rebooted & installed. All good n
probs, so i figure ive cracked it...
Spend another hour or so installing apps i use, customising it all ho
i like it. numerous reboots after installations still no probs
Watch a video in media player.... installed cuteftp which i hadnt don
previously so this cant be the prob. rebooted again to complet
installation, windows loads up with the jingle then reboots lik
someone has just turned off the power
No error messages, no blue screens, just power off and on again. No
its stuck in a loop again like this!! Now this seems pretty random t
me and I've now come to conclusion it must be a hardware prob?
The systems not overloaded power wise by the way
I cant boot up in safe mode either cos the standard keys dont seem t
work F8 selects the boot device on my system and the pause/break ke
has no effect
How the hell do i break the loop and isolate the prob?! All the guide
Ive found involve changing settings in windows which i cant get too?
I pretty sure its not a software issue, its not like I installe
something and then the system loops. There are no glitches in th
actual boot sequence it performs the POST actions fine, XP startu
screen fine. Its so odd
Ideas anyone please!!! I'm not reinstalling everything for the 3r
time for it to randomly hot again