Windows 2000 in continuous reboot

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From: roy (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/05/04


Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:13:21 -0700

I am having a similar problem, I cannot use safe mode nor
allow a normal boot due to restarts. If I could at least
get it to roll in Safe mode to command prompt I might get
somewhere but cannot get to that without a reboot. Are
you able to access the command prompt?

>-----Original Message-----
>We have installed sp4 and all other security updates. Now
>some of our computers goes into a continuous reboot. I
>cant even boot to safe mode to remove some of the updates
>because it also reboots. I don't know what else to do
>other than reinstalling windows, which is not a good
>option for us because of the great number of pc's we have
>in the lab.
>.
>



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