Re: 2003 Standard SP1 Boot Problem

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Please check event viewer in Control Panel > Administration Tools > Event
Viewer. Copy and paste any error message that you found under System (which
is related to this booting issue).

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"JCN" <jcneumann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'd just installed 2003 Standard on an older Gateway box - 550 pIII,
> 384M RAM. Ran fine, until I upgraded to sp1, downloaded through
> windows update. Now it keeps powering up and down during the boot
> process, seemingly at random. There were no error messages during the
> upgrade. There isn't anything funky about this setup, with the possible
> exception of a DVI video card to a digital-only flat panel.
>
> This was a clean install, withe the disk partitioned into C (8G) and D
> (10G) NTFS partitions. No other apps were installed, other than IE.
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior before? I've installed 2000, XP, and
> several flavors of Linux with no issues whatsoever, so I don't -think-
> there are any hardware issues. Any thoughts would be welcome.
>


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