restarting over and over

[Guest]

I was trying to install a new wireless card. It was having problems with the
service pack 2. So I was in the middle of uninstalling the service pack(to
reinstall it), when I decided to try another idea instead. I rebooted the
computer. When I rebooted, after it loaded the first "Windows" icon, a blue
screen popped up and said there were some inconsistent files and that it
wanted to scan the computer and it would do it automatically if I didn't. I
said okay. Then it scanned it and there was a bunch of information on the
screen about problems but windows had fixed the files. After that, it
restarted.

Well now, it just keeps restarting, getting past the opening "windows' logo
and then the blue screen flashes for .1 seconds and it restarts again. All I
can make out on the blue screen are some numbers and it says "Fatal Error"
and something about errors on the subsystem. It goes too fast to really read
it.

I dont know what to do. It just keeps restarting over and over again. I have
the windows disk and put that in, but nothing happened. I'm stuck! Any help
would be great.

 

[Guest]

see if you can boot into F8 Safe Mode and run system restore!!
or last known good configuration!!

 

[Guest]

I turned it off and when I turned it back on it gave me 3 safe mode options.
I just did the regular safemode and that did nothing. I dont know what else
to do and it's starting to drive me nuts! lol.

 

[Guest]

I just remembered another thing. It said there was a problem with fat32 or
fat something. If that helps at all. I have the original windows xp
installation disk. Is there anyway I can just reinstall it? I thought I could
put the disk in and hold down one of the function keys to reinstall it? I
just dont remember how.

 

[Guest]

was sp2 an update to your windows cd or did windows cd come with sp2 on it?

is this an mfg oem win cd or retail cd?

make and model of computer?

 

[Vanguard]

I was trying to install a new wireless card. It was having problems with
the
service pack 2. So I was in the middle of uninstalling the service pack(to
reinstall it), when I decided to try another idea instead. I rebooted the
computer. When I rebooted, after it loaded the first "Windows" icon, a
blue
screen popped up and said there were some inconsistent files and that it
wanted to scan the computer and it would do it automatically if I didn't.
I
said okay. Then it scanned it and there was a bunch of information on the
screen about problems but windows had fixed the files. After that, it
restarted.

Well now, it just keeps restarting, getting past the opening "windows'
logo
and then the blue screen flashes for .1 seconds and it restarts again. All
I
can make out on the blue screen are some numbers and it says "Fatal Error"
and something about errors on the subsystem. It goes too fast to really
read
it.

I dont know what to do. It just keeps restarting over and over again. I
have
the windows disk and put that in, but nothing happened. I'm stuck! Any
help
would be great.

You were in the *middle* of uninstalling a service pack, you choose to
reboot (for reasons you never explained), and really expect the operating
system to be in a usable state? Guess you'll now have to try a Repair to
step atop the OS to put a correct set of files on the drive and
upgrade/update from there.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us

 

[Guest]

I didn't realize that the reboot would mess with it that much. Thanks for the
snippy response, why bothering answering if you're going to be like that?. I
tried clicking out of the uninstall. I thought just rebooting it when
canceling what wouldn't work when I tried earlier. There's your 'explanation'
if you really wanted one.

Thanks for the link anyway. I'm already doing what it suggests. The repair
didn't work, so I'm debating whether or not I should just delete the system
and reinstall everything. The computer this is on, is just one used as
something my sons connect to the internet with or to write papers when our
other computers in the homes are in use. Nothing major is lost if the system
has to be completely wiped out and restored.

 

[Vanguard]

I didn't realize that the reboot would mess with it that much. Thanks for
the
snippy response, why bothering answering if you're going to be like that?.
I
tried clicking out of the uninstall. I thought just rebooting it when
canceling what wouldn't work when I tried earlier. There's your
'explanation'
if you really wanted one.

You pulled a boner which would seem obvious even to you. You don't expect
onlookers to giggle when you start overhauling a car engine, decide to give
up, and then figure to just get in the car to think you can drive away with
the engine all apart? Unfortunately, blooper shows about computer blunders
would be too boring. When you explained what you did to your spouse, they
didn't frown at you and say, "What? You did WHAT? Oh, geez.", roll their
eyes, and then cradle their forehead in their palm? If you cannot laugh at
yourself, expect lots of frustration when others laugh at you when you pull
a blooper.

I wasn't the one that blundered. I was the one that expressed disbelief
that you would choose that action and also that you really thought it would
work okay thereafter. When the doctor abandons a heart transplant in the
middle of the operation, the patient probably won't survive.

Thanks for the link anyway. I'm already doing what it suggests. The repair
didn't work, so I'm debating whether or not I should just delete the
system
and reinstall everything. The computer this is on, is just one used as
something my sons connect to the internet with or to write papers when our
other computers in the homes are in use. Nothing major is lost if the
system
has to be completely wiped out and restored.

You said that SP-2 had been installed. Did the install CD that you tried to
use for the Repair also incorporate SP-2? If it is just SP-1 on the install
CD then you are trying to repair an SP-2 install, however much corrupted at
this point, using an old SP-1 (that would obviously not know anything about
SP-2. If all you have is an SP-1 install CD and are trying to repair an
SP-2 installation, you will need to create a slipstreamed SP-2 version of
the install CD. Slipstreaming means to apply SP-2 to the SP-1 installation
setup so you end up with an installation where SP-2 has been incorporated
into it. Since you cannot boot using the computer that is now in a service
pack limbo state where the system files are out of sync, you'll have to use
one of your other computers to create an SP-2 slipstreamed CD from your SP-1
install CD. There are probably lots of Google hits on "+Windows
+slipstream", but the article to which I usually refer when I need to make
one is at:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp.

Of course, if no data has been saved on the computer (or you can back it up)
and there has been no major or extensive tweaking of the OS and if
installing all the applications and configuring them is no big deal then
doing a clean install of Windows and all the drivers and applications would
probably take less time. If you go the route of doing a clean install of
Windows XP SP-1, and since it is likely that you will later install SP-2
(because it may be required by applications or processes or for security),
you'll probably still want to make the slipstreamed SP-2 version of an
install CD so you can do a repair using it later. You might also want to
start investigating disk/partition imaging software (TrueImage, Ghost, BING,
RestoreIt) to let you create snapshots of your setup to provide for later
recovery.