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comp looping endlessly. ideas?

zCypher

zCypher

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Hi yall... I'm at work here and one of the comps simply loops endlessly. It's winxp and everything is fairly new. any ideas as to what could cause a problem like this? I formatted and installed XP yesterday or the day before, and now the system is back here and is just looping. It will get to a certain point and just restart, every time at the same point.

I removed all the unnecessary components and it still does the same thing. Could it be psu, ram, video... ?
 
You might try starting in Safe Mode, for starters, and if that works, then perhaps you have a driver or software issue. For instance, my Windows2000 will reboot about the time it hits the desktop screen if I install EZ CD Creator 4. I have to start in Safe Mode and patch EZ CD Creator, after which it runs fine.
 
Thanks for the input.. and woah I just heard the hd make a kinda clunky noise, hmmm. maybe the HD is defective, could that cause this problem? there was also a setting in the bios that was on "fast", I set it to Normal to see if that would help. If it resets again.. ok it just did. I'll try safe mode now. If that doesn't work, I'll see if I can get an HD to test. At least that will eliminate the possibility of it being a hardware (mobo/psu) error..
 
ok i thought it froze but it just took a really long time and then rebooted again

time to find a test hd
 
before i do that i'm just going to test it with another IDE cable, cause the one in there was kinda mangled up, maybe that had something to do with it.
 
test drive works fine... phew! that means the rest of the system should be perfectly fine. so it's either the software on the first drive or the drive itself. guess I'll find out.... hehe, format time 😛
 
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