my system (WinXP) reboots and reboots by itself

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>> Win XP auto reboots repeatedly. The rebooting loop started after power

>> failure at power company and takes place every time I switch on the box.

>> Boot sequence gets as far as Post when it reboots. Can't access Windows

>> Advanced Options Menu to disable Auto reboot. Can't see any error

>> messages due to this. Is there a way of editing the registry in order to

>> disable this feature without logging on to windows? Recovery Console

>> perhaps?

>>

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> - Temporarily connect the disk as a slave disk to some other

> WinXP PC, then use regedit.exe to edit the System hive of

> the problem installation.

 

Slave disk on the same IDE controller or on a different controller? Won't

that crash the PC? Are you sure the PC won't try to load the mucked up OS

on the slave disk? This happened to me once when I installed an old

diskdrive with a dual boot system as a second diskdrive. Not sure whether I

connected it as a slave though. The PC got inoperable and I had to reinstall

Windows.

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Re: my system (WinXP) reboots and reboots by itself

 

Please do not start a new thread on an existing subject - see

your main thread.

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Re: my system (WinXP) reboots and reboots by itself

 

if the pc was in the process

of reading and writing to

the registry or the disk

when the loss of power

occurred then you might

try to reboot with a windows

cd and log into the recovery

console.

 

then run the following commands

at the disk prompt>:

 

chkdsk

fixboot

fixmbr

 

then exit and reboot

without the cd.

 

the above should work

barring hardware failure.

 

there is a possibility

that the subsequent

electrical spike/surge

may have caused a

problem.

 

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>>> Win XP auto reboots repeatedly. The rebooting loop started after power

>>> failure at power company and takes place every time I switch on the box.

>>> Boot sequence gets as far as Post when it reboots. Can't access Windows

>>> Advanced Options Menu to disable Auto reboot. Can't see any error

>>> messages due to this. Is there a way of editing the registry in order to

>>> disable this feature without logging on to windows? Recovery Console

>>> perhaps?

>>>

>>

>> - Temporarily connect the disk as a slave disk to some other

>> WinXP PC, then use regedit.exe to edit the System hive of

>> the problem installation.

>

> Slave disk on the same IDE controller or on a different controller? Won't

> that crash the PC? Are you sure the PC won't try to load the mucked up OS

> on the slave disk? This happened to me once when I installed an old

> diskdrive with a dual boot system as a second diskdrive. Not sure whether I

> connected it as a slave though. The PC got inoperable and I had to reinstall

> Windows.

>

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