Re: Follow up to earlier post re Problems Starting WINxp
From: D.Currie (dmbcurrie.nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/24/04
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:54:40 -0600
Sounds like hardware to me.
If you've got a spare hard drive, you could try a clean install and see if
the problem still exists, or do some diagnostics using one of the OSs that
run from a CD.
"John Lowe" <john@johnlowe.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2rj02gF1b6mt8U1@uni-berlin.de...
> 1..First post read as below...........
>
> "Recently when trying boot up my computer first thing in the morning it
> has
> taken up to 8 goes to get it started.
> It starts the usual checking and quite quickly re boots then comes up with
> a
> chioce of start windows normally, last known good config. , safe mode,
> etc.
> I click start normally and off it goes rebooting, gets a bit further down
> the boot process and reboots. Comes back to choices again. I hit last
> known
> good config and it reboots and gets a bit further....etc. It will get to
> first WINXP screen with users on it but then reboots from there. Finally
> makes it after about 8 tries. Sometimes switches power right off and I
> have
> to turn power off at mains, wait, switch mains power back on to get it to
> switch on!!! A bit of a sick computer!!
>
> Finally gets booted and is then trouble free, (see below for update). Have
> tried pushing/wriggling
> all installed cards plugs , sdram, etc."
>
> 2.. Nathan replied..... " would suggest trying a different power supply.
> Also, are you able to
> go into the BIOS and check the temperature? Try setting the BIOS back
> to default and see if that helps too. If it is XP, you may want to try
> a repair operation by booting off your XP CD, choosing to Install, then
> press R to repair it."
>
> 3.. Update.....Reinstall has not cured problem when starting from cold.
> May
> try BIOS reset......but....problem has worsened slightly in that on a very
> few occasions computer has rebooted as I click on something even though it
> has been on and running ok for some hours.! The last being a folder in
> OE6.
> Very strange. Thought I would post this extra info just in case someone
> has
> further ideas. Is this likely to be a hardware problem rather than
> software?
> Is it possible to tell. Full virus scan done and nothing there.
>
> Many thanks to anyone who can advise me.
>
> John Lowe
>
>
>
>
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