***Dell D610 keeps Looping***

[CmosDriver]

I have a Latitude D610 notebook that repetitively loops once its turned on.
It doesnt even make it to the login screen. It gets as far as the XP logo
showing up for about a second or 2 and then it starts all over again and
again and again. I've tried booting into SAFE MODE but.... It does the exact
same thing. The power cord hasn't been given to me yet so now the battery is
dead. I've taken the hard drive out and connected it to my computer and it
can not be accessed at all which is telling me that maybe all it is IS the
HDD. Won't be certain until I can get the power cord to the thing.

Anyone out there have any other suggestions to what might be going on w/this
thing that I should check out???

ANY AND ALL INFO IS MORE THAN WELCOME.
THANX N ADVANCE!!!

Wayne B.

PS - I see that Microsoft has started the process of closing down their
newsgroups. I've skimmed thru MSDN, TECHNET AND MICROSOFT ANSWERS but haven't
found any open forums like here that allows individuals go back and forth
with personlaized questions and answers. If i'm overlooking those types of
setups on any of those sites could somebody please pass on a link to help me
out??? THANX AGAIN.

 

[Paul]

I have a Latitude D610 notebook that repetitively loops once its turned on.
It doesnt even make it to the login screen. It gets as far as the XP logo
showing up for about a second or 2 and then it starts all over again and
again and again. I've tried booting into SAFE MODE but.... It does the exact
same thing. The power cord hasn't been given to me yet so now the battery is
dead. I've taken the hard drive out and connected it to my computer and it
can not be accessed at all which is telling me that maybe all it is IS the
HDD. Won't be certain until I can get the power cord to the thing.

Anyone out there have any other suggestions to what might be going on w/this
thing that I should check out???

ANY AND ALL INFO IS MORE THAN WELCOME.
THANX N ADVANCE!!!

Wayne B.

PS - I see that Microsoft has started the process of closing down their
newsgroups. I've skimmed thru MSDN, TECHNET AND MICROSOFT ANSWERS but haven't
found any open forums like here that allows individuals go back and forth
with personlaized questions and answers. If i'm overlooking those types of
setups on any of those sites could somebody please pass on a link to help me
out??? THANX AGAIN.

You could put the drive back in the laptop, then boot the laptop with
something like a Linux LiveCD. Using that, if there is a
file system present, you'll be able to find it. Modern Linux
distributions, are bootable from a CD, and can read both FAT32
and NTFS file systems. So you'll be able to have a look around,
at the system in question. If no disk is visible, then that
would also be an answer (hardware problem).

Otherwise, you'd have to take note of exactly what is happening when it "loops",
to decide how dead it is. If it is able to see and load some of the files
from C:, then C: might be fully functional as a partition. It could be a
problem with winlogon, caused by malware. Windows has a couple things,
that if they're missing, the OS will shutdown, rather than remain running.
It won't stay running, if it feels "insecure".

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=25096&mode=threaded

Or, a corrupted file is causing the system to reboot before the boot sequence
completes. You'd need to observe what is going on (perhaps try Safe Mode via
pressing F8 and enable boot logging, to create a boot log for later). You may
be able to examine the contents of the boot log, using a text editor from
the Linux LiveCD environment.

You can download and make a LiveCD from here. Typically, a lot of the distros
are a 700MB download. Only a few of them are significantly smaller (which
may be important if you're on dialup networking).

http://www.ubuntu.com

To connect a laptop drive to a desktop system, you'd need at least a
44 pin to 40 pin adapter for IDE. Such an adapter has a power connector,
and you need power to run the drive. (Alternately, you can use a USB2
to IDE adapter cable, as another way to do it.)

http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/12-119-245-S01?$S640W$

On SATA drives, you can use the same cabling as for a desktop drive.
(Only SATA 1.8" drives need a microSATA cable.) Perhaps you don't
have something connected correctly ? Have you looked in Disk Management,
to see if the little drive is being detected ?

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The forums can be found here - Microsoft' replacement for their USENET forums.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories

HTH,
Paul

 

[John Wunderlich]

I see that Microsoft has started the process of closing down their
newsgroups. I've skimmed thru MSDN, TECHNET AND MICROSOFT ANSWERS
but haven't found any open forums like here that allows
individuals go back and forth with personlaized questions and
answers.

Try here:
<http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories>

HTH,
John