What (recent virus?) causes reboot at initial XP screen

[spartacuskzm]

I'm assuming it's one of these viruses (like blaster) but don't know for sure. It's my coworkers Gateway computer - P4 1.5Ghz w/ 256 megs of Ram. I'm unable to boot in Safe Mode, but can get into bios.

The kicker is it doesn't cause the system to crash, per se, but rather reboot toward the end of the initial WinXP screen.

Thoughts, remedies, suggestions?

I tried searching, but didn't have much luck.

Thanks all,

Derek

 

[jswjimmy]

reinstall windows.

 

[spartacuskzm]

Thanks - will do.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: spartacuskzm
Thanks - will do.

Why not just download some Anti-Virus and get rid of it ?

 

[spartacuskzm]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: spartacuskzm Thanks - will do.

Why not just download some Anti-Virus and get rid of it ?

Can't get into windows - period. Safe mode or regular - reboots at initial screen (before it's fully loaded).

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: spartacuskzm

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: spartacuskzm Thanks - will do.

Why not just download some Anti-Virus and get rid of it ?

Can't get into windows - period. Safe mode or regular - reboots at initial screen (before it's fully loaded).

Norton has bootable floopies that scan for viri...

 

[phillydog]

Originally posted by: spartacuskzm
I'm assuming it's one of these viruses (like blaster) but don't know for sure. It's my coworkers Gateway computer - P4 1.5Ghz w/ 256 megs of Ram. I'm unable to boot in Safe Mode, but can get into bios.

The kicker is it doesn't cause the system to crash, per se, but rather reboot toward the end of the initial WinXP screen.

Thoughts, remedies, suggestions?

I tried searching, but didn't have much luck.

Thanks all,

Derek

You have a virus, probably Blaster, but could be the San (something like that) virus.... I had it and only way to fix it was to reformat the drive... if you have a Dell, you should have either tech support from them, and/or a backup/restore CD.... after you fix it, I would advise upgrading to the latest service pack and downloading the patch from Microsoft (ends in 026.asp).

 

[rmrf]

Try this thread. This is probably what you have, unless of course you haven't even patched from the previous RPC exploit.

 

[phillydog]

After I rid my virus, I was still having the problem... someone advised I download memtest86 (or something like that), to check my memory, and sure enough, one of the sticks was bad...

After removing it, all was fine and has been for about 2 months... Just a suggestion if the box reboots at different intervals (compared to every xxx seconds)