Loop Boot and HDD troubles

[toxicrocker1714]

So No matter What I do or what hardware i use,,, fresh install or
old.. I CAN NOT BOOT it goes to the xp screen or flashes the 98
screen, then reboots itself, This is the second system ive encountered
this on.. WHY GOD!>? WHYYYYY? on this second system tho It keeps
failing to recognize the HDD.. says none are present to hit f1 to
retry or f2 to setup, I hit f1 and sometimes its better sometimes not.
Ive checked connections and swapped out cables// HDD you name it ive
swapped it.

 

[Taha Tungekar]

So No matter What I do or what hardware i use,,, fresh install or
old.. I CAN NOT BOOT it goes to the xp screen or flashes the 98
screen, then reboots itself, This is the second system ive encountered
this on.. WHY GOD!>? WHYYYYY? on this second system tho It keeps
failing to recognize the HDD.. says none are present to hit f1 to
retry or f2 to setup, I hit f1 and sometimes its better sometimes not.
Ive checked connections and swapped out cables// HDD you name it ive
swapped it.

Hi toxicrocker,

Have you checked you jumper settings or the cables themself. May be
your hard drive is corrupt. You can try booting with a PE CD and see
if the PE detects your HDD or not.

Hope this helps.

-Taha Tungekar

 

[Guest]

I seem to remember a few months (a year, dunno) ago there being a virus that
did that, kept rebooting my system. Can't for the life of me remember the
name of the virus, but maybe a search of symantec might help?

 

[Guest]

When you say "it keeps failing to recognize the HDD" do you mean, at a BIOS
level?
I would definitly check your jumpers first, like Taha said. especially if
it is a Western Digital HDD, as you should remove the jumper completely.
Another thing to look out for if it is looping the boot process is the RAM.
if you have more than one stick in there, try them one at a time (assuming
hopefully, you are not using RAMBUS ram ).

hope this helps.

 

[DL]

I assume this is a dual boot, otherwise a clean install of winxp would not
present you with win98 screen.

I assume the hw is suitable for winxp?
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[toxicrocker1714]

ya its a dual boot. And arfe you guys talking about the
Jumper settings on the board or on the hard disk? im prett sure the
Jumper settings are right but ill give it a try

 

[DL]

jumper on hd's