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XP Home Edition Keeps rebooting

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by bkforney

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Ihave XP Home Edition on Netvista desktop. I get to the wondows splash page and then it reboots and keeps doing it over and over. Never gets past the spash page or to the desktop. Even tried to use safe mode but can't get past the splash page. I had been getting BSoD flashing right after getting to the desktop and error message was related to modem (which I knew was having problems)... Since then removed the modem, tried using recovery console to desable the modem service but still loops through rebooting. Any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated

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by hal 9000

The Controller for an IDE Drive is gone bad and is no longer working properly.

What happens is that it will load to a certain level and then the HDD becomes unreadable so Windows Boots back to start in an attempt to get around this problem.

To check this out download the HDD Makers Testing Utility and if the HDD fails the test then transfer it to a different computer and test again. If it fails again the HDD is faulty and if it passes the second test the HDD Controller is faulty on the M'Board. You can sometimes work around this by using a PCI to IDE or SATA Card depending on what type of HDD that you have but generally it requires a reload and the PCI Drivers to be copied to the root of a floppy so that they can be loaded when you are at the first stage of installing Windows by pressing the [b]F6 Key[/b] to install drivers that are not included on the Windows CD. But you need to keep in mind that once one part of a M'Board fails the rest may follow very quickly.

Col

by bkforney

though.. When I start the system using XP installation disk, I can look at the c:drive and see the data. Can navigate around the directories and look at files.. would I be able to do that if the IDE drive was a problem?

by hal 9000

Is failing yes you can. When I get a bad drive I bung it in a freezer for a while so that I can copy the data off it and then dump the drive.

Some of these things are heat affected and others are just affected by running time. Unless you perform the test you will never know.

It's also possible that you have picked up some kind of infection that has trashed the Windows Install but as you posted above that you are unable to do a repair install that really points to either the HDD or Drive Controller.

Col

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