Continually reboots

[Guest]

Windows XP will continually reboot. Normal or Safe Mode makes no difference. HDD recognized correctly in BIOS. Removed Samsung 60GB Secondary (slave) HDD (IDE 0) - PC boots normally. Uninstalled IDE Controllers & Primary HDD (the only one showing since removal of secondary HDD) drivers in device manager. Reinstalled HDD. Rebooted. Still no joy.
Secondary HDD works fine in WIN9X machine.
Old Western Digital HDD set as slave on IDE-0 and PC will boot. Old (but operational) Samsung (6.4GB) HDD set as slave on WinXP machine - system will not boot. Does it just not like Samsung drives all of a sudden

Any ideas? Anyone
Thanks
Jason

 

[L Beck]

Windows XP will continually reboot. Normal or Safe Mode makes no

difference. HDD recognized correctly in BIOS. Removed Samsung 60GB
Secondary (slave) HDD (IDE 0) - PC boots normally. Uninstalled IDE
Controllers & Primary HDD (the only one showing since removal of secondary
HDD) drivers in device manager. Reinstalled HDD. Rebooted. Still no joy.

Secondary HDD works fine in WIN9X machine.
Old Western Digital HDD set as slave on IDE-0 and PC will boot. Old (but

operational) Samsung (6.4GB) HDD set as slave on WinXP machine - system will
not boot. Does it just not like Samsung drives all of a sudden?

Any ideas? Anyone?
Thanks,
Jason

Had a similiar situation with newly built computers that had some bad memory
sticks. Rather baffling at first. But as soon as the bad memory was
removed/replaced all was fine. No more problems.

 

[Guest]

I'll switch out the RAM. Thanks L
Jason