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Blue Screen Reboot Loop
Name: Mangochips Date: October 18, 2008 at 14:51:02 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 9950 quadcore Phenom(AMD)
Comment:
This is my computer's parts atm: MA790X-DS4 Gigabyte Motherboard AMD 9950 Quadcore Phenom Processor HD 4850 Radeon Diamond 2x 2gb Patriot RAM (1066) Antec Trio 650W power Supply 500gb Seagate SATA HD(has been formatted) - 120GB Back-up Seagate SATA
My problem is this. As of right now my computer does a continuous restart loop. Soon as you start the computer and it goes through bios and everything, it comes to the screen that allows you to pick normal/safemode. Whatever you choose, it then goes to the Windows XP loading screen where a blue screen flashes for 1/2 a second before resarting and it will continue this loop. At first I had thought it was the hard drive so I formated it, wiped it clean and used a back-up to start the computer on in hopes of just transferring data from back-up but it continued to do the reboot loop. I'm not sure if its the hard drives anymore or if its a Motherboard issue or a non-compatibility issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Name: astroraptor Date: October 19, 2008 at 17:48:13 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like a driver issue. If you put the hard drive into another computer and start the Event Viewer, you can load the event logs from the hard drive. They will be found under: C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\. Search for a "dump" and paste your findings.
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Response Number 2
Name: UpAndComing Date: October 20, 2008 at 10:33:30 Pacific
Reply:
could be ram too - i had a similar experience with Patriot memory (and will never buy it again). Try booting once with each stick of RAM in the motherboard by itself. If you have any other DDR ram handy, you could test it with that too.
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