Hi,
this past weekeng my pc began to reboot at startup. it gets to the XP logo and then it shuts down and starts again.
I though one of the memory sticks was damage, so I remove them all and tested one by one and the pc did not boot with any of them.
I had had problems with the DVD so I disable it and nothing.
I have a bootable cd (UBCD) and I was able to boot from it.
I ran spyware removal (I did find and remove some adware)
I also ran memtest and it passed.
ran scandisk and there were some corrupted sectors but it appears that the data was recovered and moved.
also did a registry recovery.
tried last good know config. (won't boot)
tried safe mode. (won't boot)
after all of this the pc is still acting the same way.
by the way I booted from the same CD about 15 times (kept troubleshooting, and idead kept comming) but 2 or 3 times it behaved the same way. It restarted, but the other times it boot it ok.
Try rebooting it from HD about 20 time and it just kept going in circles.
what else can I try?
have XP with 1.5 GB ram
I do a lot of maintenance (virus, adware removal, defrag, port scanns .. except backups ;o( ...............)
this past weekeng my pc began to reboot at startup. it gets to the XP logo and then it shuts down and starts again.
I though one of the memory sticks was damage, so I remove them all and tested one by one and the pc did not boot with any of them.
I had had problems with the DVD so I disable it and nothing.
I have a bootable cd (UBCD) and I was able to boot from it.
I ran spyware removal (I did find and remove some adware)
I also ran memtest and it passed.
ran scandisk and there were some corrupted sectors but it appears that the data was recovered and moved.
also did a registry recovery.
tried last good know config. (won't boot)
tried safe mode. (won't boot)
after all of this the pc is still acting the same way.
by the way I booted from the same CD about 15 times (kept troubleshooting, and idead kept comming) but 2 or 3 times it behaved the same way. It restarted, but the other times it boot it ok.
Try rebooting it from HD about 20 time and it just kept going in circles.
what else can I try?
have XP with 1.5 GB ram
I do a lot of maintenance (virus, adware removal, defrag, port scanns .. except backups ;o( ...............)