wilkes

I'm surprised no one here has suggested a virus.

This was a symptom of a virus I saw a few years back.

Would be interesting if you can boot from your AV rescue disc and run antivirus removal program.

http://techtips.salon.com/c...-1223.html

try rebooting the computer in safe mode and copying all files to a flash drive and reinstall the OS.

@ Bennett:


I just created an .odt text document inside Open Office that I will save to my pen drive for future reference. Thanks for that man. This is an awesome and greatly helpful article. I couldn't for the life of me remember all of the command line arguments that I learned years ago. This brings to my attention some I have never learned too.

@ bennet


I love the link you posted. This is a very smart and tech savvy link. Yeh I've noticed whenever I tell a customer that their best course of action is to let me wipe the HDD or format they get nervous even If I properly back up there data. Format is thought of as a dirty word by a customers who are not good with computers.


It is very true that with the right command line knowledge as expressed in the link below you will be able to repair a host of corrupted boot loader and kernel problems even keeping the original installation in tact. I am wondering if this is your article. Is It yours? If so, Job Well done.

Either you have a failing power supply or like bennett said, your boot loader is most likely corrupted. Try popping in your OS disc that came with your pc and run a startup repair and if that doesn't work open up command prompt from the cd and try the fixmbr command. look up the correct syntax for the command on google. I think it is something along the lines of fixmbr c:. The first thing might work but it will probably require the second method or eventually a reload as the course of action to repair your machine.

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your boot loader is corrupted

try this

http://tech.icrontic.com/ar...indows_xp/

its a laptop, with windows xp, tried to restart it today, then it just gets to the loading windows screen then i get a message that power faliure may have caused this you can enter safe mode start normally or start from last good point...but all of those just makes you do the same thing

Hardware wise RAM IS BAD or Hard drive is corrupted
Does windows load at all? or Just a restart During the post test

Also please post make Model and what redneck ask for

It can help a lot

Need more info

laptop/desktop?

what operating system?

how far does it get befor rebooting?(what do You See on screen)

any thing new added?

any thing deleted/removed?

any error message?

my computer is stuck in an endless reboot and i need to get this fixed but i do not want to lose all my file i have, any ideas?