Hello,
my computer is stuck in a reboot loop. i have an intel pentium 4 desktop computer. it is windows xp home edition. the problem happened after i installed the windows service package 2 (i know, im a little behind). it seemed to install the update fine but after i restarted my computer i couldnt seem to get to my desktop. the computer manages to get to the light blue windows xp loading screen but instead of entering my desktop the computer reboots and the whole process starts over again. after reading other forums, i tried the F8 method but couldnt seem to make it work. last known configuration and safe mode dont seem to work but i may have not done them correctly; im no computer whiz. but after pressing the "disable automatic restart on system failure" option, i got this error message on the "blue screen of death" (this happened after the light blue xp loading screen instead of it restarting like it usually does):
STOP: c000021a Unknown Hard Error
Unknown Hard Error
what should i do? i dont want to have to reinstall windows xp and lose my data as i have some important documents and music mp3s on it. ive read about possibly doing a repair install? how does that work, would it work, and would it save my data? is there another option? thanks in advance.
Configuration: Windows XP
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Hi,
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When XP keeps on rebooting, the most likely problem is, that your boot config has gone haywire. To fix this try to boot from the XP home cd , do a repair on the current selected installation. in dos mode run bootcfg /rebuild. That should fix your problem if not try to repair windows by reinstalling all dll, this will not destroy any data |
You will not lose you data,just repait the operating system using the windows XP Cd. go for an option of repairing no installing a fresh copy. or you can remove your hard disk and instal it on another computer as a slave so that you can retrieve your data and then format thedisk after retrieving your data thru creation of a backup, dont worry you wont lose ur data..........carol
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I have the same problem but im not running window xp my computer is window vista home prenium edition. i been looking for a window vista download so i could reformat my computer. when i bought my computer from frys they didnt give a window vista cd for it. could somebody help me out i would appreciate it a lot
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Hi all.
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I had a similar problem where the monitor would say entering power save mode and then restart. The problem started after i had a faulty graphics card replaced. I have a dell computer and when the problem started they promptly replaced my mother board and graphics card and the tech reinstalled Vista. However after a couple of days the problem reappeared. On speaking to them again the tech asked me to change the cable to VGA from the DMI port as that could be the reason for the problem. I did that and watched 4 episodes of 24 the serial without any problems.
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Hello, my problem is this, i'm on windowse xp home edition on survice pack 1 and i get sistem failure when i start a video eny kind of video it just freezes my windowse or it auto restart's, but it dosent freeze when i'm playing videos online, it's some kind of wierd bug i have tried everything last solution is hard drive whipe whit new xp instal so if enyone got a solute pls help me out here i dont want a whipe !!! |
I am having the same problem, but it's not an isolated incident, this seems to be spreading over our network, we have 5 machines all of which now reboot themselves as the desktop (win xp) is loading up, it just reboots without any warning or messages, i can log in on safemode and it wont reboot, i have tried a 30 day old system restore and run antivirus software but nothing has worked so far. My network is peer to peer... Any help or suggestions would be appreciated |