I was tinkering around with misc XP "Services", disabling the ones that I'd figured I didn't need, then when I had rebooted, it would only get just past the IDE drives initializing, and for not even a fraction of a second it would flash the light sky-blue "Welcome" screen, but then I could hear a brief audible "pop" noise from the PC's internal speaker, and it would then automatically reboot, ...it would keep doing this over and over again if I'd let it, but I tried going into "Safe-Mode", however, it would not let me get that far, it would reboot, ...I hit F8 and selected to load the "Last known good settings", and that still didn't work, I got the same exact thing every time. So then, after awhile of getting nowhere with it, also since I'm rather new to the more complex OS "XP" compared to "'98 SE", therefore I don't really know how to get out of certain situations, ..so I had just opted to format and reload it (argh!). So, I formatted and reloaded the drive which is a very long process because for some crazy reason, it just will not boot from the Win XP Pro CD, I'm forced to use the six floppies (argh!), then once I got it back up and going again, I began to download & install all the misc Win XP updates from the Microsoft site, it would prompt me to reboot after every batch of updates, I always select "yes" to reboot, and it went right back into that process of continuously failing to boot into the OS, and over and over again rebooting. This is getting rather annoying at this point, I do not understand what could possibly be causing this repeat of problems. Any ideas, tips, or suggestions as to what it is, PLEASE reply and let me know. Thanks a million!!! Robin

99% of the time the rebooting is caused by video drivers. or lack of proper drivers. you must get to safe mode, remove the display drivers, then reboot to windows, install correct drivers.

I dont what you have done there for it to be come an issue even in safe mode. I woulda say that you have already spent for time tring to figure this out then it would have taken you to re format and install fresh. Its like all things Dont fix what an't broke and dont do anything till your sure of the result before hand