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pc keeps restart
Name: shepa Date: September 29, 2004 at 15:47:51 Pacific OS: windows XP pro CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 1200MHz / 256
Comment:
My friend has Win XP home edition on a 2.4MHz/512 RAM PC with 1 HDD of 80Gb. yesterday my friend PC had the following problem: windows was loging on.."Loading your personal settings", but after 3 seconds it was "Logging off". so I tried everything but with no success. I tried safe mode, Recovery console, installing new copy of XP. the problem did not resolve and now it become even worst, now I cannot even go through the loggon screen. it keeps restarting again and again and I do not know what to do. total despair. Please someone hellp. thanks a lot.
Name: FJ Date: September 29, 2004 at 15:53:48 Pacific
Reply:
As a LAST RESORT; get a copy of Partition Magic 8.0 or later and use it (as a boot up disk) to create a new small partition on some empty space.
Then install an operating system to the new partition. Boot to the new OS and start collecting all of the programming he needs to save.
Then format the main partition and load a fresh copy of XP and start over.
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Response Number 2
Name: Rick McNabb Date: September 29, 2004 at 17:14:15 Pacific
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You can edit the boot.ini file on C: root so as to disable the splash screen. then you may be able to see whats happening. Add /SOS to the line that starts XP. (after the /fastdetect) make sure you have a space between these. The boot.ini is usually a hidden, system, read-only file, so you will have to enable viewing of hidden files(Windows Explorer, Tools->Folder Options-> View tab) and change the read-only attribute. (Right click on file to view properties)
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Response Number 3
Name: matty_boy Date: September 30, 2004 at 01:20:33 Pacific
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sounds like it could be hardware - possibly your cpu overheating and shutting the computer down.. try re-seating stuff and check fans/ cabling etc
matt
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Response Number 4
Name: shepa Date: September 30, 2004 at 15:11:56 Pacific
Reply:
thanks you all i will try all your recommendations and let you know.
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...
