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| Thread ID: 54944 | 2005-02-26 17:01:00 | PC Keeps Rebooting | muzstar (7439) | Press F1 |
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| 328449 | 2005-02-26 17:01:00 | ok, my PC's been running fine and their have been no recent software changes . My HD, and DVD Burner are just under a month old and were working brilliant Its a Celeron 600, 190MB RAM, 160GB HD, Multi Format DVD Burner hooked upto a router through a Cat5 Cable . It's running Windows XP Professional with SP2 and All Security Updates . It has a wireless mouse and keyboard . I booted it up and the keyboard and mouse stopped responding . The reciever was still acknowleging a signal but nothing happening . I reboot the computer and thats where the real problem started . You know where the screen shows that bar go across and goes black, the next stage is to show the XP Logo booting but it keeps resetting their . I've tried Safemode but as it shows the list of files its loading it just reboots . I've tried repairing the installation but that still hasnt worked, when it reset after installing and went to boot the same problem . The only option i see left is format, but i want to avoid this if possible because i have VERY important files on their and i've seem to lost my backup disc . Any opinions? Muzstar |
muzstar (7439) | ||
| 328450 | 2005-02-26 17:34:00 | I seems to me to be a SP2 compatibality issue, possably with the keyboard/mouse, as you say they stoped responding. I presume you are working on a diffrent computer. If this is the case I suggest first to fix the problem and then (providing you have the install CDs) if all else fails the make a boot cd, and grab the files that way. (www.nu2.nu) I also heard that you can install windows XP beside another copy so you know instead of installing in C:\windows\ install in c:\windows2\ then boot to windows 2 and try to retrive the files that way, that being said I have never tried that. Oh I hope for your sake that the files you want to retreve aren't XP encripted, because Windows won't decript them without a valid user certificate, and you can't get that without booting to the OS. Alternativaly you could try a live linux CD to recover the files. If bandwidth is an issue (you can't DW 600+ mb) then I recomend DSL live cd, is is around 50mb. |
moldboy (4870) | ||
| 328451 | 2005-02-26 17:52:00 | I thought of something more although my edit time has expired so here goes: support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com |
moldboy (4870) | ||
| 328452 | 2005-02-26 17:55:00 | I don't think its the keyboard or mouse because I've used it with SP2 ever since it was available. On another note i noticed a blue screen just after the beore it reboots but its to quick to read | muzstar (7439) | ||
| 328453 | 2005-02-26 18:08:00 | BLue scree? It might be signs of HDD failure, though I am not too sure about that since you mentioned that your HDD is new. | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 328454 | 2005-02-26 21:47:00 | Hmm.. a few possibilities with this... Have you tried to bootup using a bootup disc? Hopefully your BIOS is set so the floppy is the first boot device. Went researching this... one thing that came up on a regular basis was the abbreviation SP2 Seems some people have problems with it, while most don't. You may also want to have a look here... support.microsoft.com (support.microsoft.com) |
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