Re: Computer keeps rebooting on Starting

DISREGARD my earlier post & DO NOT cghange the Start Value to a "4"- That FIX
is for AMD and I'm so use to the Looping Re-boot being AMD that I forgot to
ask you - I just wrongly Assumed.

"Mel" wrote:

I do not have an AMD processor it's Intel

"iPC" wrote:

Again, if AMD processor:

http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/05/08/does-your-amd-based-computer-boot-after-installing-xp-sp3.aspx


"Mel" <Mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've tried all the options to get into safemode and I can't. It just keeps
rebooting it self. I can't get into any safemode at all.

Mel

"Richard in AZ" wrote:


"Mel" <Mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|I went to restart my computer and when it started up it goes to the
first HP
| bootscreen (blue) and then shows Windows XP logo and then reboots. It
keeps
| looping like this.
|
| I've tried to start it in safemode and it does the same thing. It gets
to
| loading the mup.sys and then restarts.
|
| I've tried the Windows XP CD and booting from it. It I went into repair
and
| did a chkdsk /p and it found errors and fixed them. However, it keeps
doing
| the rebooting loop.
|
| I have windows xp media center edition. I recently installed the SP3
patch.
| That was fine and had no problems with that.
|
| Today I got a new WD My Passport Elite 320GB Portable Hard drive. I'm
| thinking that one of the programs that installed from the hard drive
could be
| the culprit. But not sure how I can uninstall that program if I can't
get
| into windows even in safe mode.
|
| Any suggestions? I have media center edition on that computer but have
a
| windows professional CD. If I install professional over the media
center
| edition would it cause problems?
|
| Any help would be appreciated.

Have you tried running a system restore to a date before July 8th?
HP installed an Intel system file in some AMD computers that has a major
reboot problem after a
critical update offered by MS on July 8th. (May be in SP3 also) If you
can back out of that update,
you can get your computer working again and then download the fix.
You can run the system restore from a SafeMode with command prompt
option.
How to Start the System Restore Tool from a Command Prompt
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q304/4/49.asp







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