Continual Reboot after Xp Pro Upgrade

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Joe

We just bought a SONY Vaio Desktop and it came with XP
Home preinstalled, along with SP1.

After "upgrading", rather than a clean install, to XP Pro
the system reboots, the Welcome screen appears and then
the computer reboots immediately. It does this
endlessly...

Would a clean install, against Microsoft's recommended
option of "upgrading", resolve this issue or there some
other "tricks" to make the upgrade work and be stable
(i.e., so I can get inside).

This appears, from the posts here, to be a common problem
with SONY systems by the way. But I didn't see a solution
posted.

Thanks in advance...
 
Hi

After you reboot keep tapping the F8 key until you see a 'DOS' screen. Towards the bottom of the screen there is an 'Last Known Good Configuration' option - try that.
 
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