windows constantly re-booting

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Geoff

I have a Compaq evo laptop which was formatted and Win 2K pro re-installed.
The problem is that after booting up, Windows loads as far as the splash
screen, the blue bars run along until completed but then the PC shuts down
and re-boots again. This is repeated ad infinitum. I have checked BIOS
and can find nothing wrong there. There are no "sticky keys" on the
keyboard etc.

Any suggestions would be much welcomed.

Geoff.
 
Geoff said:
I have a Compaq evo laptop which was formatted and Win 2K pro re-installed.
The problem is that after booting up, Windows loads as far as the splash
screen, the blue bars run along until completed but then the PC shuts down
and re-boots again. This is repeated ad infinitum. I have checked BIOS
and can find nothing wrong there. There are no "sticky keys" on the
keyboard etc.

Any suggestions would be much welcomed.

Geoff.
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Press F8 during the early boot phase, then try booting into
"Last Known Good Configuration" or "Safe Mode".
 
Geoff...

I'm not suggesting that you're having the same problem, but it may be
something to try in order to eliminate the possibilities....

I have a compaq laptop at home with a Xircom 10/100 PCMCIA card. The jack
on the network card had broke from moving the laptop around, nudging the
network cable, etc. Once this broke, Windows (98 on my machine) would reboot
when it would try to initialize the PCMCIA bus. Try taking out any cards you
have, and reboot.

Pegasus offers a good idea too. Hit F8 upon bootup, and try safe mode. If
safe mode works, reboot, hit F8 and then try LOGGED. This will create a file
called BOOTLOG.TXT in the root directory. Then reboot, hit F8, and command
prompt. Open the BOOTLOG.TXT and see what device might be failing to cause
the reboot.
 
Thanks guys,

I ended up installing Win98se which works OK so maybe I'll try to upgrade
from there.
 
You would be far better off with a clean Win2000 installation.
Upgrading from Win98 involves lots of compromises.
 

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