Windows 2000 keeps rebooting

[Graham]

Have you ever come across a Windows 2000 PC rebooting itself?

It starts to load up Windows 2000 to the point of the splash screen where it
has a blue counter bar along the bottom of the page, once this has completed
it goes to a blue screen where there is 4-5 lines of text for 1 second and
then reboots. I have tried to pause on the blue screen but it don't let me
do that.

Any ideas?

Oh just to make my life even easier, the software and drivers have been lost
ages ago.

 

[Guest]

Hi graham

try rebooting the machine to safe mode than try reinstalling every driver and software...particularly network adapter . i have faced similiar situation and finally i was able to fix it by removing TCP/IP and again reinstalling it.if it,s still there try changing network adapte

regard
sushil

 

[Graham]

Thanks for the reply, do you have any ideas as to what keys I press to get
into safe mode?

Hi graham.


try rebooting the machine to safe mode than try reinstalling every driver

and software...particularly network adapter . i have faced similiar
situation and finally i was able to fix it by removing TCP/IP and again
reinstalling it.if it,s still there try changing network adapter

 

[nesredep egrob]

Thanks for the reply, do you have any ideas as to what keys I press to get
into safe mode?


and software...particularly network adapter . i have faced similiar
situation and finally i was able to fix it by removing TCP/IP and again
reinstalling it.if it,s still there try changing network adapter

F8 as Windows ic coming on - while the the progress bar is on.
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[William P.N. Smith]

Thanks for the reply, do you have any ideas as to what keys I press to get
into safe mode?

F8 when the white dashed bar is on the bottom of the screen, as per
the text that's there at the same time...

Many crashes and constant reboots can be a result of some of the newer
mal-ware, FWIW.

 

[Sven Zallmann]

do you have any ideas as to what keys I press to get
into safe mode?

Being able to read is a clear advantage here. Windows tells you
how when starting up, at the beginning of the screen with the
text-mode progress bar.

HTH,