RE: System Continuously Restarts

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From: RitchieJHicks (RitchieJHicks_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:23:04 -0800

Well, I presume it restart in Windows?

Right click on My Computer and select properties.
Click Advanced tab.
Click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
Under System Failure uncheck Automatically Restart.
Click OK.

This won't cure your problem, as instead of restarting you'll likely get a
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). But it will hopefully give you an error which
you can use to trace the cause of the problem.

I had this once and it was a faulty driver on my CDRW. A friend found his
was caused by a USB device. If you need more help drop me a line.

"Liz" wrote:

> I am working with Windows XP and my system keeps restarting. I have
> downloaded the boot disk and am able to get the system to 3 options: 1 put in
> XP disk, 2, use recovery console and 3 quit. I tried using the recovery
> console but I do not have the windows xp cd (my system came preloaded). how
> do I bypass this? can I copy the kernel file from another system and use the
> recovery console and specify the location to read from or can I use a
> different version of windows xp (i.e professional or office) to obtain this
> file that is damaged Please help

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