Re: Continous reboot w/ one time pre-boot memory error

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And do it a quite bit longer - not just as soon as it boots.

Jim wrote:
I tap it as soon as comp boots .



On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:35:11 -0800, DADSGETNDOWN
<DADSGETNDOWN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One of those times I mentioned has to be the "right time", right ?
It seems that it either is broken, or there is such a small time frame,
NOONE can do it. 1 millionth of a second and one tap. I feel I have tried
all
of the proper timeings.
Maybe not. but...
I would like to think it's not as hard and as many tries as, breaking the
world record on Nintendo 64's Golden Eye, Facility 00 Agent. =:)

"John John (MVP)" wrote:

You have to repeatedly tap the F8 key, and you have to start tapping it
at the right time.

John

DADSGETNDOWN wrote:

F8 does not do anything except beep when you tap or hold it, and still
goes
to the windows loading status screen.
When it starts it shows the video card info, then that disappears, and
then
it shows bios info, motherboard info, amount of ram, then mouse,
keyboard,
then the hard drive and both cd-roms, then it makes a sound like
accessing
the floppy, then it will beep and go to the windows loading screen.
I have tried tapping right before the sound of the floppy, and right
after,
and right before the beep and right after and even during all the
above.
I think I seen something in the msconfig (before I tried to restart,
before
all this happened), something that showed up after a bad shutdown ,
dump/
something or something dump, Now maybe if I could get to the file that
is
the msconfig info and change it.
Alhtough the easy way would be to get into safe mode.
Why nothing happens is beyond me.
It always gets to the windows loading screen the progress meter goes
by
twice the screen goes black like it is going to go to the logon screen
but
stays black for a few seconds then (once in a while) it will flash a
blue
screen so fast you can not tell anything, and then always makes a click
like the power turned off and on or reset
then it restarts.
I didnt try to clear the cmos yet.
Any other ideas ?

"John John (MVP)" wrote:


Start tapping the F8 key just after you see the BIOS POST information
and just before Windows starts to boot and disable the option to
Automatically Reboot on System Failure, that will cause the boot
process
to halt on the blue screen, then see if you can get any useful
information from the bugcheck error message. You can also try booting
to the Last Known Good Configuration, if that fails try to boot to
Safe
Mode.

John

DADSGETNDOWN wrote:


Hello, I tried to shut down my computer it took forever at the saving
settings screen, so I hit the reset button.
While booting right after the bios check at the bottom it finds the
hard
drive, and cd-roms, it said ONE time only something about a "pre-boot
memory decreased" I think it was decreased, Definitely "pre-boot
memory", So I went into the cmos and looked at the logging event and
then marked it as read, after a few tried to restart I deleted it.
SO, It does not show the message anymore.
It does say the right amount of memory.
It gets as far as the black bacnkground Windows screen and the little
bar
under it has a blue scrolling loading type progress bar/meter.
then the keybaord flashes the lights and it goes black and then the
screen flashes blue like the logon screen. can't see anything other
than
a little blue, then it clicks and restarts the power, like power off
then on again. I hit F8 and it does nothing.
I put in a windows xp sp1 cd And I can get it to show the the choices
install, recovery console, and F3 to quit, It will load the recovery
console but have no idea what commands to use.
BUT I really don't want to do that first, I would like to get into
safe
mode or the restart using last known good configuration.
any clues ?
Oh I believe I have windows xp sp2 on this computer,
even though I have this other sp1 cd I am using, I am looking for my
sp2
cd. at the moment.


.

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