I am unable to fix the problem of XP pro reboot in the loop. I had imaged the old IBM NetVista model 6790. The imaged has SP1. Window XP can’t boot normally. It boots into F8 boot screen. I can’t set it to boot into safemode, safemode with command prompt or with networking. Window won’t boot into normal mode either.
I tried swapping RAM chips but boot loop problem persists. I already set the BIOS to default. The PC has Pentium 4 3GHZ single CPU. There is no RAM errors beep upon POST boot. I read online about SP2, SP3 that might be in conflict with older hardware thus I imaged the PC with SP1. I already tried to fix boot sector using window CD recovery console. Window still won’t boot normally. It still get stuck in a loop.
Can someone help me here? I am very frustrated with this PC. My IT manager expect me to fix this issue.
