XP Rebooting at Startup

[GSpeare]

After quitting out of a game of Half-Life last night, my PC froze just as it was switching back into Windows. I reset it and now it reboots as soon as it gets to the XP startup screen (the mostly black screen with the "progress bar"). I tried the repair option on the XP install disk, but no luck. I'm figuring a full reinstall of XP will take care of the problem, but before I do that I thought I'd see if anyone else had eXPerienced a similiar problem and had a better solution.

System details:

Athlon 1.3 GHz
Epox 8KHA+ mobo, 133 FSB
512 MB RAM
Geforce3 Ti200 (505 mem, 210 GPU), 22.81 drivers

 

[Mem]

<< but before I do that I thought I'd see if anyone else had eXPerienced a similiar problem and had a better solution. >>



I did have lockups on exit of CS,TFC,DMC, it would go to switch back to Windows and freeze(not all the time),I fixed that by running it in 98 compatiability mode ,also running in D3D seem to work as well since I only had it happen in OpenGL mode,this is a well known XP and CS problem since my friends would get the same thing happen on their XP with CS.I guess it`s a problem with CS and XP so maybe a patch will be out to fix it in the next CS update.

 

[Orbius]

So it doesnt flash a BSOD up right before it reboots?

BTW this constant rebooting happened to me too in XP. And I did end up reinstalling.

Stable OS my a$$.

 

[GSpeare]

No BSOD, just the WinXP startup screen, then black as it reboots.

XP has actually been very good to me; the Gainward drivers for my vidcard, on the other hand, were very very nasty.

Anyone know any good books to read during this re-install?

 

[Mem]

<< No BSOD, just the WinXP startup screen, then black as it reboots. >>



The auto reboot is enabled by default on XP, which is the same as a BSOD,so you can disable it and see what the BSOD message is next time it happens if you can get to desktop.

You tried WinXP safe mode?

 

[GSpeare]

Tried safe mode, same thing happens.

I've had BSOD's in the past (different problem) on this machine, and was able to at least see there was a BSOD before it restarted. This is much more abrupt. I can't even boot to change the auto-reboot settings at this point, unless they can be changed from a DOS startup disk.

 

[Amused]

<< Tried safe mode, same thing happens.

I've had BSOD's in the past (different problem) on this machine, and was able to at least see there was a BSOD before it restarted. This is much more abrupt. I can't even boot to change the auto-reboot settings at this point, unless they can be changed from a DOS startup disk. >>



Too bad it doesn't flash the error on the screen before it reboots. I had much the same problem, except for a second or two it flashed a "system root/hive directory corrupted or missing" (at least I think it said that, it flashed so fast) error. I ended up having to reinstall.

 

[GSpeare]

Re-installed, works fine...for now.