xp restarts over and over on bootup

[scott s]

the pc gets to xp screen and then restarts over. i have
tried all safe mode options and restore last known confg.
nothing works. any ideas?

 

[Dan P]

I am having a similar problem, but after the XP logo comes
up my screen goes black and only my cursor is displayed.
It stayes like this forever and the PC never boots.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
the pc gets to xp screen and then restarts over. i have
tried all safe mode options and restore last known confg.
nothing works. any ideas?
.
I may be wrong but I thought that the virus that came as

a microsoft update was the cause of this??

 

[Howard]

Same here. No new hardware. Restored to the last day it
was working. Loads fine in safe mode. Ran a Norton virus
scan but it didn't find anything. Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[NaresH KumaR]

Automatically restart check box is selected under System failure in the
Startup and Recovery dialog box (under System Properties (right-click my
computer). Remove the check mark

 

[Alex Nichol]

Same here. No new hardware. Restored to the last day it
was working. Loads fine in safe mode. Ran a Norton virus
scan but it didn't find anything. Anyone have any thoughts?

One thing that is *possible* - I have had reports of a similar problem
being caused by an updated copy of ntoskrnl.exe to build #1151 by one of
the recent Windows Updates

You *may* be able to find an earlier copy on the machine, but the only
certain place for the right one is in the
windows\driver cache\i386\driver.cab or sp1.cab (If you have SP1).

Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead
of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password
requested is blank, and TAB over., giving

expand "C:\windows\driver cache\i386\sp1.cab" /f:ntoskrnl.exe
C:\Windows\system32\drivers

(That is all a single line) - if you do not have SP1 use driver.cab
instead of sp1.cab.
..
Then

copy C:\Windows\system32\drivers\ntoskrnl.exe
C:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

(again one line): You need to have it in the drivers first to stop File
Protection possibly overwriting with the one there

Please let me know if this works - I'm trying to collect evidence