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THANK YOU SO MUCH. i disconnected the other HDD and used a different copy of windows. for the moment it is working fine. i appreciate the help so much

yes ino the only options when i pressed F8 were my 2 hard drives. i booted from disc when i installed windows again. i was looking for the disable resart which was said to be in F8 but it wasnt it came up asking for me to select which hard drive i wanted to boot from

it is a legal download from msdn and a full installation, before it stopped working i had it installed and it was working fine

thanks for the replies... i tried taking the ram out a only using one, this didnt work, also there is no data i wish to retreive from my hard drive so i formatted it. when i press F8 on the keyboard, it asks me to select my boot device, so i select my main hardrive, it then lists how much memory i have and what pci devices there are for 8 seconds. then it goes to windows error Recovery options being safe mode safe mode with networking safe mode with command prompt last known good configuration and start windows normally none of these work as the problem continues

i am using windows 7 64-bit, every time I turn on the computer it starts loading windows then it restarts without me pressing anything. i have ran memory diagnostic tools, HDD checks, Formatted and resinstalled windows and it keeps happening. after i reinstalled windows it started loading then restarted again. i have no idea what is causing this and all the components are new. i am using: Asus Maximus III formula motherboard 600W STEALTH EXTREME 2 PSU and 4 GB RAM i dont know if the problem is hardware or software related. someone please help me this is very fustrating