2000 Pro repetitive logon

[JohnB]

I have found that very often when I reinstall an image file of a system back
on to a pc (the one it was made on) when I attempt to logon as
administrator or another user I can enter my logon details and it goes off
saying "loading personal settings" as it should then it just goes back to
the logon screen. This cycle continues until I select shutdown. I cant get
in to the desktop. The machine isn't plugged into the network although it
is set-up with an ip address. I have tried disabling bios settings. The
only other car pci card is the network card and I have also taken that out
and attempted to log in but it still doesn't work. Anyone had experience of
this? Any ideas?

 

[Gerry Voras]

Does the image exactly match your hardware? Any differences may cause
symptoms like yours.

 

[Guest]

JohnB

I had the same symptoms you did, but not sure if I just did a whole reformat or started reading error messages to locate files that were problematic and erasing them or not....but I do know the frustration of the condition you were talking about. In my case though, I had installed a "second" version on the hard drive because of some problems. I think the system get's confused when there may be more than one "file". Wish I could help but not sure which route I took when it happened as I don't tend to write down steps when I'm frantically trying to find out what is wrong. :