Reboot recycles endlessly

[Guest]

XP PRO: Suddenly the PC recycles itself into reboot after the screen has
shown "Windows Professional" and been black for a few seconds as it usually
does at this stage.

How to get out of that vicious loop?

Thanks,
Pierre

 

[Leif Nordmand Andersen]

Hi,

I once experienced that. In my case it was because the system disk
(where Windows XP is installed) was short of space. There was not
enough space for the swapfile, which caused the reboots.

I had to put the hardisk into another windows computer and remove
stuff to make room for the swapfile.

Could be your problem too.

regards Leif.

 

[Pete]

This happend to me also. You didn't say anything about BSD or Stop Codes.
Here is what to try if you haven't already:

1. As your computer starts, hit <F8> and get to the boot menu, then try
selecting "last known good" (these selections are parapharased)

2. If it still reboots, try <F8> again and boot in safe mode.

3. If it still reboots, try running the Recovery Console from your Reinstall
CD. If you can get to the Recovery Console, run CHKDSK /R

4. If you can't get to the Recovery Console because your computer "hangs"
then try to get to Setup and do a Repair Install.

5. If Setup hangs, then your ntfs volume is bad, either from software
(which is what happened to me) or hardware glitch. You will want to run
hardware diagnostics on you processor, memory, and HD as a minimum. They
were all fine for me and I ultimately had to reformat the HD and reinstall
from scratch. I have not had problems since, but am somewhat leary of ntfs.
There are tools on BartsPE and WinUBCD that it creates that may help, but
you need to have created that CD yourself already. Good luck!

 

[Guest]

0 Where XP resides there is 20GB of space and last time I checked it was 50%
free.
1 "Last known good" did not work
2 "Safe" did not work
3 "recovery console" says all partitions are clean.
4 This is a few days old installation where I changed the system from FAT32
to NTFS. You might be right here. I will try the "Repair" Option.
5 "Repair": Everything going OK under repair, until 20 minutes down the path
the system cannot find a file in E:\386\ASMS. Heck, why does he go in E to
find it when this directory is normally in C. Beats me! Does not even ask for
me to point out where it could be. I will have to ask a specific question for
that one.
Thanks for yr help till then.
Pierre