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Repeated Rebooting XP

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by gdaneuk

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PC was working fine. I went away for the weekend and powered off. Since then it refuses to get past first windows screen, rebooting every time. It won't even load in safe mode. I have swapped the power supply, memory chips and its still the same. PC is a HP Pavilion t430.uk using windows XP.

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by gdaneuk

Sadly i dOn't havean OEM disk or a bootable disk. All I have is a partition from which I can use HP recovery to get back the Windows XP to factory installed state. That's what I am trying now. Sadly also, although it indicated there were two options and I chose the one just to restore the OS and not format the disk, it then announced that it was formatting te disk.. so, we will have to see :(

by ooombaz

while your system is booting press F8

then choose

Disable automatic restart on system failure

then you will be able to se ablue screen with details of why windows is rebooting

if you don't know how to solve the problem send it to me and i will try to help

by oh smeg

Try downloading a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD from here and making a Copy from the ISO File

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

Test the CPU, RAM and anything else that is fast and see if there is anything wrong with the Hardware. Do not forget the HDD Makers Testing Utility as that tests the HDD.

Also when you have this reloaded from the Recovery Partition [b]Make[/b] a Install Disc from the Utility supplied and store it in a safe place. If you do not do this and your HDD fails you will be unable to reload the system ever again.

Col

Col

by kevinotakos

I had the same problem 30 minutes before I wrote you this mail. Now do this when your machine is trying to load windows, when the windows logo is splashing just hold on the power button till it shuts down. Then restart the machine it should bring you the booting options such as safe mode. Select safe mode then after it boots sucessfully go to start menu, acessories, system tools then system restore.
Restore it to the date just prior to your current problem, your system will restart itself then it will immediately start to restore the files automatically which it will finish and evrything will be fine. If you are still having problems with these procedures contact me on kevinotakos@gmail.com, kevinotakos@yahoo.com or call me +254722723571
I will give you the much needed technical assistance.

by gdaneuk

Thank you , That's what I had intended to do, but unfortunately, it wouldn't even boot up in safe mode.

by gdaneuk

Thank you for your good advice. I should have waited......
I used te HP Recovery to , as I thought restore the operating system without destroying user data, option R. In the event it overwrote everything anyway :(
It then refused to boot up but this time i got a message on screen saying Out of Range... Tracked this down to a faulty graphics card. Replacing this with one from an old PC allowed it to come up OK. So, I have a working PC with shiny new power supply and no software. I had backed everything up with Nero and then it wouldnt read the backup. I am in discussion with Nero Technicians to try and fix this as all my software keys are on various emails in Outlook on the hard drive :(

by oh smeg

Your Backup.

For small One Off systems I don't trust many Backup Applications and prefer Straight Data. When things go wrong it's easier to get back, but that is just me maybe. ;)

Col

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