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2007-06-26 16:07:12
Hurricane
Banned
+1,153|7101|Washington, DC

Okay guys

So I decided to install XP again since Vista = lag. Well, Vista + my 'computer' = lag. It installs fine, I get drivers in, start doing the myriad of updates. When installing one set of updates though, something very curious happened! My computer restarted all of a sudden! So it does the POST screen, then the loading screen for XP, and when it shows the "Welcome" thing for XP, the computer immediately restarts.

Now, I don't know if it's the computer or XP (hopefully the former), but I don't know what the hell to do. I googled it, and the best result was this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310396

Which was less useful than pissing on my motherboard. Any ideas, or has my computer finally outlived its usefulness?
2007-06-26 16:55:01
=Karma-Kills=
"Don't post while intoxicated."
+356|7055|England
Virus? If you dont get SP2 uber quickly after fresh installs, blaster worm (amongst others) can cause soem damage pretty quickly (thats why ive got SP2 on a disk so i can install it oflfine )

What AV have you got? Any?

Can you boot into safe mode (f8)?
2007-06-26 17:07:54
Cheez
Herman is a warmaphrodite
+1,027|6910|King Of The Islands

Hmm, sounds like your Account is stuffed. Go into Safe Mode (if you can) and make a new one, see if it helps.

Maybe try Safe Mode with Networking to get more updates?
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
2007-06-26 17:13:03
TheEternalPessimist
Wibble
+412|7091|Mhz

you do a full wipe of your hard drive when you reinstalled? Killed the partitions as well as format them? I dont know anything about Vista but I'd imagine it uses newer file system structures than XP does, might fuck it up a bit when you went backwards, only other thing that commonly causes behaviour like that is installing the wrong drivers in which case try and get in on safe mode/start again n get it right

=Karma-Kills= wrote:

Virus? If you dont get SP2 uber quickly after fresh installs, blaster worm (amongst others) can cause soem damage pretty quickly (thats why ive got SP2 on a disk so i can install it oflfine )

What AV have you got? Any?

Can you boot into safe mode (f8)?
Blaster Worm will restart your PC after you connect to the t'interwebs not at the welcome screen, you're right tho, there are a lot of others that could do something like this.

EDIT, I just read your OP properly, it's blatantly a fucked system file if summin went wrong during installing somthing off windows update and then conveniantly it's all gone to shit. Re-install skippy it's your only hope , I'd do a proper disc wipe (new partitions, everything) while you're at it to eliminate any other possible problems.

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2007-06-26 17:22:42
=Karma-Kills=
"Don't post while intoxicated."
+356|7055|England

TheEternalPessimist wrote:

Blaster Worm will restart your PC after you connect to the t'interwebs not at the welcome screen, you're right tho, there are a lot of others that could do something like this.
Im not sure but, didnt he go online to get the updates (where he maybe got a virus). Virus installs. Virus reboots the computer randomly over and over (once it is downloaded, doesnt need to be on the net again?)
2007-06-26 18:08:18
Ryan
Member
+1,230|7314|Alberta, Canada

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2007-06-26 18:11:02
CaptainMike
It's just a flesh wound
+45|7116|Canada
The exact thing happened to one of my computers at work. I had just installed the newest windows XP updates and it won't properly start up. My boss talked the computer tech and he just suggested to wipe everything and do a full reinstall which I still have to do.
2007-06-27 08:12:18
Cougar
Banned
+1,962|7236|Dallas
Usually when a computer is stuck in a constant reboot it means either:

A: The OS didn't install properly and is shutting down, causing you PC to "reboot".
B: You may have a bad sector on your hardrive that your OS/Hardrive cannot read.  (Kind of like a skipping CD)
C: Your memory is bad and the computer is actually crashing upon booting.  This can give the illusion that the OS is messed up since it will get to the load screen, stop, then restart.

9 times out of 10 though, it means the OS is bad.  I would suggest doing a CHKDSK if you can get that far, followed by a fresh re-install.  If all else fails, download a version of WipeDrive, clean your drive completly so that your OS has a clean slate to install onto and retry the install process.

If it still is not working you may look into getting a new harddrive.

 

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