Can't Start Windows-Keeps Rebooting

[Guest GTifeld]

Hi All,

 

I've seen this question posted before, but none of the solutions offered

seem to be helping my problem. I have an older PC which is caught in a

re-booting loop. The XP logo appears, then it reboots. It comes up with the

usual "Windows was not properly shut down..."message and offers the choices

of Last known good config, Safe mode, Start normally, etc. None of the

options work.

 

Some of the suggestions I've tried so far was booting from the CD and using

Recovery console to expand the KERNEL32.DLL file, and uninstalling SP2. Both

of these attempts went smoothly, but neither has resolved the problem.

 

Any other ideas or suggestiosn would be greatly appreciated. If you need any

specific info, I'll be glad to supply it. Thanks in advance.

 

---- Gary

[Guest Tim_S]

Re: Can't Start Windows-Keeps Rebooting

 

I have this happened before too...

what I had to do to fix mine was replace the SFC.dll file with a known good

one.

 

I took my hard drive out and got a IDE to USB adapter plugged it into a good

working system and copied the file from its system32 folder onto the drive.

 

as a good precaution i replaced any file that was named SFC in both the

system32 folder and the system32\dllcache folder too.

 

you can also do this with repair console mode with a floppy disk.

 

you can also use another system and extract the files from the original disk

if need be...

 

Do a google search on sfc.exe ...

 

 

 

 

"GTifeld" <GTifeld@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:82550F22-99D3-4AB4-A89D-EFBBA9C184C9@microsoft.com...

> Hi All,

>

> I've seen this question posted before, but none of the solutions offered

> seem to be helping my problem. I have an older PC which is caught in a

> re-booting loop. The XP logo appears, then it reboots. It comes up with

> the

> usual "Windows was not properly shut down..."message and offers the

> choices

> of Last known good config, Safe mode, Start normally, etc. None of the

> options work.

>

> Some of the suggestions I've tried so far was booting from the CD and

> using

> Recovery console to expand the KERNEL32.DLL file, and uninstalling SP2.

> Both

> of these attempts went smoothly, but neither has resolved the problem.

>

> Any other ideas or suggestiosn would be greatly appreciated. If you need

> any

> specific info, I'll be glad to supply it. Thanks in advance.

>

> ---- Gary