Reboot loop

[Mike Wiley]

When booting up my computer, it begins to load win2k, then
just keeps rebooting.

I tried booting from the win2k CD to do a repair, but it
gets stuck in the initially blue set-up screen.

Any ideas?

 

[Skier]

OK,
Did it work for a while and then started the loop, or did it just start one
morning?
Did you add some hardware or change a driver before this happened?
Have you updated you BIOS lately?

I have had this happen when I changed some hardware. I had a SCSI tape
drive on my machine and it would reboot about 3 times before it was happy.
It would get to the end of the startup bar then reboot. I changed out some
hardware and it hasn't done it again.

If you did change the PC in anyway, try changing it back. If this is new,
then we need to try a few things. Let us know some more details.

Tom

 

[PCHilfe Computerservice]

I am currently facing a massive reboot problem on a friends machine.

That is how it happened:

The PC is a Duron 900 256 MB 40 GB HD standard CDROM.

My friend had obtained a copy of a copy of a copy of a windows 2k setup
disc and installed it with no probs about a year back.

He and his wife and his kids worked with the pc and then decided to get
legal by buying a copy of w2k. They asked me to install it.

The copy from the shop was an OEM-SP4 copy , the installed version had
no service packs installed.

I first tried to repair the installation with the sp4 cd and received
the message that i first had to install sp4 before i could do that.

So i did, downloaded SP4 and installed it, did a repair installation and
was able to enter the new product key code. The computer rebooted and
came up with a problem like "SAS-Windows. winlogon error" after
informing me that winlogon had some severe problems.

"SAS window: winlogon.exe - Application Error
The instaruction at "ox..." referenced memory at "0x..". The
memory
could not be "written".
Click OK to terminate the application."

I thought that annother setup might cure it.

Now the setup went fine but the machine rebooted when entering GUI mode.
(in final stages of completing setup) When i took the cd out , setup
required a file called nt5inf.cat. When i inserted the cd it loaded
something, propably that file and then rebooted without annother word.
it continues to do that ever since.

I am thinking of removing the hard disk, moving the data to a machine on
my network (yack 25 GB!) and doing a clean new format. But I am afraid i
will never get it working the way it was.

Please help me.

 

[Vincent]

I'm experiencing the same problem and posted a message
yesterday.
I was pretty sure it was an hardware problem,
particularly with the video card.

May I ask you what kind of hardware you have?

I changed everything in the incriminated computer
except the motherboard and CPU (RAM [type & bank], HD,
Video, reset/flash BIOS...).

I have a MSI mainboard mod 6153 with a PIII 800.

Something which is interesting is that computer was OK
with NT4..


Please help us!

 

[Mike]

I just finally gave up and tried a repair, then just did a
new install. Seems to work fine now.