Win XP Pro system continually loops

[PCDumbass]

No idea as to why this is happening, but I'm going to try booting in safe mode and see what happens.

The only thing I did differently is that I hooked up a DSL service to it about a week ago. Yes, it's firewalled and locked up with Norton Antivirus, so it should be OK woth regards to an intrusion.

The thing just continually loops and won't let me get as far as the Win XP login screen.

Any ideas as to what could have happened? Flaky MB? Conflict? I am not getting beeps from the system at startup, so I don't think it's a component conflict.

-Rob
robpilgrim@gmail.com

 

[PCDumbass]

Even F8 won't bring me into the "Safe Mode" screen.

What the heck?

-Rob

 

[Joemonkey]

Are you overclocking? If so, revert back to regular CPU speed

Also, do you have some RAM from another machine you can switch out?

 

[PCDumbass]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
Are you overclocking? If so, revert back to regular CPU speed

Also, do you have some RAM from another machine you can switch out?

Not OC'ing. I may have another stick kicking around, but apparently the PC registers the RAM right now without any problems, i.e. she suns it all up in the bootscreen well and it shows up properly in the BIOS.

-Rob

 

[PCDumbass]

FYI

I did a "repair" install of Windows XP and everything seems fine now. I haven't rebooted more than 1/2 doz times, so I won't count my chickens just yet, but the PC does seem solid.

 

[dbuttcheek69]

 

[dbuttcheek69]

this happened to me a actually a few weeks ago. Do you get to the login screen? can you actually enter your password, mine would get tto the "loading your personal settings" point and then log right off before it got any further. I never found out how to fix it, so i installed xp home on another hard drive, recovered my files and other important stuff from the xp home environment, and formatted the drive and reinstalled xp pro on it. that seemed to work for me.

as per the reason for this happening, i believe it is a problem with the security policy. you may have inadvertantly change one of the settings and not even known it. Norton may do that sometimes. i would try doing what i did, and clearing the security logs in the administrative tools. that might work.

give it a shot,
hope this helps