it should go to c: after 4 sec it will ask you for the admin password leave it blank hit enter

it says it is checking one of my discs for consistency

i think i did something wrong---when you said it should go to C, what did you mean? It had been sitting at that screen for several minutes, I hit the letter C and enter, and it said it was an invalid entry or something along the lines of that. I eventually just hit enter, and it then said it was checking my disc for consistency.
it then rebooted like has been doing.
I am now reloading the floppy discs.

when you get to the console let it run then it will as for the admin password leave it blank hit enter then start what they say in the link

when i "R" to start the recovery console, it brings up a page that looks like this:





I have left it sitting for about ten minutes... what should i enter?

it should go away and ask for an admin password

is it possible that it wont ask me?
it has told me before to enter a valid number, when i tried "C", so i entered 1 and hit enter.
it now has
? (cant see it stil):\MiniNT>

is it possible that I am at the recovery console command prompt, without having the admin password question?
should I enter the lines the link told me to?

try doesn't hurt, could be

so far, I've typed in the first 5, and for each one it's told me "the system cannot find the file specified".....

the middle 5 have all said
'?'n error occured during directory enumeration. (i cant see what character the ? is)
the last five say the same as the first five.

Hmm only other thing I can think of is my be your ram went bad

download memtest from the link below burn it onto a cd then boot off of it.

http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.4a.iso.zip

let it run for at least 7 passes

i cant get it to boot off memtest. i used f2 to change the boot order to cd rom first, and also have tried using f10 to choose boot cd first. i can hear it reading the cd, but then it just goes on like it normally would if you left a regular music cd in....
does it matter that i downloaded memtest with vista, and not xp? becuase i could try again with a pc with xp...

how did you burn the iso you need something like power iso download it from the link below it is not free but we can use the trial to burn it

http://www.download.com/PowerISO/300...=dl&tag=button

i downloaded it, and burned the program using it.
it still won't boot.

i edited the boot order so that it went cd rom, cd rom, cd rom, harddrive.
no luck in three tries.
i edited it so that it went cd, cd,cd,cd, and it finally booted the disc. its scanning right now.

i'm guessing 7 passes is going to take forever.... so i'm going to wait until tomorrow morning to do it.

About 4Hrs

thats about what i guessed...so that would be 3:30 in the morning......sleep wins today.

hey maybe kim can help with the lope of reboots it can be related to hardware

xxdanielxx I haven't even read the thread in full
Now, I know instead of this message, I could have!

But maybe after the Mem Scan, there can be a write up of

What is the current fault
What has been tried
Any other further info

In a few lines!
This thread is just too big!