J
Jim
In the span of the last 10 days my XP Pro machine has
experienced several reboot loops. I've seen some posts
here with similar symptoms:
1) Boot process gets to beginning of splash screen
2) Boot process hangs
3) Machine reboots itself
4) On subsequent reboots it says the last load of Windows
did not start successfully, and gives options to start in
safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe mode with
command mode, last known configuration that worked, and
normally. NONE of these options boot up. They all get to
splash screen (or in Safe mode, to the mup.sys file) and
reboot again.
My cases have grown progressively worse. The computer
rebooted itself once on October 23rd, rebooted itself
about 10 times October 24th, worked fine October 27th-
29th, then got very stingy from Halloween on. I have had
only 3 successful reboots in that time.
Here is what I have tried to do so far to fix the
problem, with no success:
- Got latest virus definitions and did virus scan. One
showed up (didn't jot name down unfortunately; looked it
up and found it to be email Trojan horse, not likely
cause). Quaranteed that virus
- New 500W power supply
- Repair install of Windows XP Pro (Appeared to work for
about 4 hours, then got BSoD and have been rebooting
continuously since then)
- 'Manual' memory tests - I have 3 sticks of 512MB
memory. I have tried booting up with each stick
individually, figuring they can't all be bad. None of
them worked.
Here are some ideas that I might have that might lead to
the possible solution.
- The only items I loaded up before the rebooting loops
started were iTunes and the new ATI Radeon drivers. To
those of you who are also having this problem, did you
recently download ATI drivers before the reboots started?
- When searching this forum for the keyword 'reboots' in
the subject heading, I get no hits for this problem
before October 2nd. From October 3rd on, there are
several posts about rebooting problems similar to the one
I'm experiencing. Is it possible that there was a patch
put out on or around October 3rd that affects machines
with certain configurations?
Here is the basics of my configuration, for what it's
worth:
Athlon 2400+
Gigabyte 7VAXP Ultra
1.5GB of 2700 Kingston Memory
Radeon 9500 Pro
Twin 40GB Maxtor drives in MBFastTrack133 Raid Array
(additional 80GB Maxtor drive for storage
If anyone has any other suggestions or ideas, it'd be
greatly appreciated. I'd like to keep wiping the hard
drives clean and doing a fresh install of XP Pro as a
very last resort.
-Jim
Fox -at- Winternet.com
experienced several reboot loops. I've seen some posts
here with similar symptoms:
1) Boot process gets to beginning of splash screen
2) Boot process hangs
3) Machine reboots itself
4) On subsequent reboots it says the last load of Windows
did not start successfully, and gives options to start in
safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe mode with
command mode, last known configuration that worked, and
normally. NONE of these options boot up. They all get to
splash screen (or in Safe mode, to the mup.sys file) and
reboot again.
My cases have grown progressively worse. The computer
rebooted itself once on October 23rd, rebooted itself
about 10 times October 24th, worked fine October 27th-
29th, then got very stingy from Halloween on. I have had
only 3 successful reboots in that time.
Here is what I have tried to do so far to fix the
problem, with no success:
- Got latest virus definitions and did virus scan. One
showed up (didn't jot name down unfortunately; looked it
up and found it to be email Trojan horse, not likely
cause). Quaranteed that virus
- New 500W power supply
- Repair install of Windows XP Pro (Appeared to work for
about 4 hours, then got BSoD and have been rebooting
continuously since then)
- 'Manual' memory tests - I have 3 sticks of 512MB
memory. I have tried booting up with each stick
individually, figuring they can't all be bad. None of
them worked.
Here are some ideas that I might have that might lead to
the possible solution.
- The only items I loaded up before the rebooting loops
started were iTunes and the new ATI Radeon drivers. To
those of you who are also having this problem, did you
recently download ATI drivers before the reboots started?
- When searching this forum for the keyword 'reboots' in
the subject heading, I get no hits for this problem
before October 2nd. From October 3rd on, there are
several posts about rebooting problems similar to the one
I'm experiencing. Is it possible that there was a patch
put out on or around October 3rd that affects machines
with certain configurations?
Here is the basics of my configuration, for what it's
worth:
Athlon 2400+
Gigabyte 7VAXP Ultra
1.5GB of 2700 Kingston Memory
Radeon 9500 Pro
Twin 40GB Maxtor drives in MBFastTrack133 Raid Array
(additional 80GB Maxtor drive for storage
If anyone has any other suggestions or ideas, it'd be
greatly appreciated. I'd like to keep wiping the hard
drives clean and doing a fresh install of XP Pro as a
very last resort.
-Jim
Fox -at- Winternet.com