Cant Boot into XP, get almost there and machine reboots

[Scott Townsend]

I have a WinXP Installation that boots as follows:

Power on
POST BIOS Stuff
WinXP Logo with Blue Progress bar
This screen takes forever to get past and the progress bar stops at
times.
Then for a brief moment, the Good familiar Blue screen (Not BSOD) appears.
Then poof, the machine reboots.
End less Cycle


If I try Safe Mode. It gets to the MUP file and stops, I may not have waited
long enough though.


I can boot from the XP CD and get to a Recovery Console, though I dont know
what to do from there.

Thanks,
Scott<-

 

[QN]

Try booting into "safe mode". If that doesn't work, you may have a hardware
issue (could be power supply, CPU, mobo, RAM...)

 

[J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT]]

Give it some time and see if it doesn't eventually load in Safe Mode. If it
does you can go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and
Recovery and disable 'Automatically Restart' under System Failure. Once you
do this, look in the system log for any errors and make a note of what they
are, then restart normally and get the data from the stop error. That
should give you a clue as to root cause.

--
J.C. Hornbeck, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support

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