Constant reboot at splash screen

[Njaneardude]

My daughters AMD Compaq with XP SP1 has started looping, again, when it
gets to the XP splash screen. I say again becuase I fixed it the last
time by booting from a XP disk, and intsalled over the OS. The system
was (past tense) full of spyware and the like, I cleaned it up,
installed Spybot and a AV and set them to run and scan daily. Now she
calls me and tells me its doing it again.

When it gets to the XP logo splash screen there is a blip of a blue
screen, then it reboots, and on and on.

I've tried everything, every possible version of Safe mode etc.

I'm beginning to think hardware as the computer is probably almost 4
years old.

Any suggestions?

~d

 

[mr.roboto.ny]

My daughters AMD Compaq with XP SP1 has started looping, again, when it
gets to the XP splash screen. I say again becuase I fixed it the last
time by booting from a XP disk, and intsalled over the OS. The system
was (past tense) full of spyware and the like, I cleaned it up,
installed Spybot and a AV and set them to run and scan daily. Now she
calls me and tells me its doing it again.

When it gets to the XP logo splash screen there is a blip of a blue
screen, then it reboots, and on and on.

I've tried everything, every possible version of Safe mode etc.

I'm beginning to think hardware as the computer is probably almost 4
years old.

Any suggestions?

~d

Sounds like a problem similar to a PC repair I'm finishing as I
type. An "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" BSOD will take you as far as
the logo, then reboot and reboot and reboot. Assuming you've
cleaned the malware, boot w/ your XP disc, wait until the
text-mode Welcome screen is displayed, then Enter+F8+R, to do a
simple repair. If this isn't possible, then XP has been damaged
beyond the possibility of a simple repair and will require a
ground-up XP installation.

HTH....MR