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installed SP3, PC keeps restarting
Name: raiden1701 Date: August 5, 2008 at 21:24:33 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon64 3500+ 2
Comment:
I just installed SP3 for XP pro with SP2. Now the PC boots to the XP loading screen, then restarts over and over. What is going on???
Name: lurkswithin Date: August 5, 2008 at 22:18:38 Pacific
Reply:
You have an AMD computer. A file that is not to load is caused to load on first reboot of SP3. This also happened in SP2 but a fix was created and stopped the error from happening...until SP3 came along.
boot up and go into start page by toggleing the F8 key as soon as it starts and until you get the page.. Choose safe mode with networking and go to
and scroll down to find the download for the fix. Download and install the fix.
reboot and it should boot properly.
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Response Number 2
Name: raiden1701 Date: August 6, 2008 at 09:26:53 Pacific
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I can't even get into Safe Mode.
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Response Number 3
Name: raiden1701 Date: August 6, 2008 at 12:26:40 Pacific
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I used Winternals ERD Commander to boot into it's version of XP. Then I used system restore to bring it back before SP3. Then I rebooted and XP was fine somehow working with SP3. Then I used Microsofts fix and all is well for now.
Summary: PC keeps restarting at random times. It restarts intermittently if I'm surfing the net, will definitely restart if I try to access files on another PC on my home network - I can connect to another com...
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