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i have a emachine with windows xp,aFTER I RELOADED WINDOWS ,the system freeses on windows xp screen then restarts without ever going into windows.i reseated modem,ide cables and ram still no success.any ideas?

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by dmiles

Check the Device Manager by booting into safe mode,the rebooting may be generated by a hardware problem,make sure you are not using the same IRQ also.

Check the video,sound and nic,the drivers or IRO conflicts will cause the machine to re-boot

by karlthoeni

If your emachine had windowsXP on it before and you just reinstalled the OS useing the repair mode..more the likely the system needed a third party driver that your not aware of ,..,first check the systems documention of the hardware pre installed ,Then try formatting option before the installtion .if you still are having the same problem ..then remove all I/O PCI cards ,then reinstall the OS ,that should do the trick.afer the OS has been installed then install the PCI cards one by one .that work

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