Can't Start Windows-Keeps Rebooting

[Guest]

Hi All,

I've seen this question posted before, but none of the solutions offered
seem to be helping my problem. I have an older PC which is caught in a
re-booting loop. The XP logo appears, then it reboots. It comes up with the
usual "Windows was not properly shut down..."message and offers the choices
of Last known good config, Safe mode, Start normally, etc. None of the
options work.

Some of the suggestions I've tried so far was booting from the CD and using
Recovery console to expand the KERNEL32.DLL file, and uninstalling SP2. Both
of these attempts went smoothly, but neither has resolved the problem.

Any other ideas or suggestiosn would be greatly appreciated. If you need any
specific info, I'll be glad to supply it. Thanks in advance.

---- Gary

 

[Tim_S]

I have this happened before too...
what I had to do to fix mine was replace the SFC.dll file with a known good
one.

I took my hard drive out and got a IDE to USB adapter plugged it into a good
working system and copied the file from its system32 folder onto the drive.

as a good precaution i replaced any file that was named SFC in both the
system32 folder and the system32\dllcache folder too.

you can also do this with repair console mode with a floppy disk.

you can also use another system and extract the files from the original disk
if need be...

Do a google search on sfc.exe ...