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WinXP reboots at startup
Name: David_Chen Date: September 9, 2003 at 03:54:20 Pacific OS: WinXP no SP1 CPU/Ram: Ce2.0 256MBDDR
Comment:
I got a problem with my newly bought computer. The system keeps rebooting itself at startup(When I enter the password of my account or just at the time my desktop occurs.). I've already turned off Automatical Reboot on Error but there is no error message occurs. It works well in Safemode.I hope that all my hardware is OkT_T
Name: viewmaster Date: September 9, 2003 at 04:11:31 Pacific
Reply:
Did you take out the hardrive and put it into another computer to install the operating system. For example did you take the hardrive from another computer and put it into yours??
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Response Number 2
Name: RobbieDickon Date: September 9, 2003 at 04:26:17 Pacific
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Assuming that you did not do post 1 and it is all brand new pc then a good place to start is the bios.
Go in and set it to failsafe settings or default, exit and save.
Then get your Motherboard book out and look to see what you need to have enabled. such as sound and usb.
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Response Number 3
Name: keef444 Date: September 9, 2003 at 08:01:42 Pacific
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Sounds to me like a device driver is creating this prob (which would be loading at normal startup, but not in safe mode).
Have a look in the Device Manager for any yellow exclamation marks and also Event Viewer for any clues.
Hope this helps
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Response Number 4
Name: Sabertoooth Date: September 9, 2003 at 10:00:11 Pacific
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Since it load windows in safemode,open msconfig disable all startup items,under BOOT.INI select SAFEBOOT apply the changes and set your adapter on standard. Restart the system if windows loads reinstall your video driver and enable startup items independently..Good Luck
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