XP keeps restarting

**buksida** · April 27th, 2004, 07:02 AM

Have an XP box here that wont boot, gets as far as the black winXP logo then just restarts, same place everytime. Heres what I've tried so far:

Replace RAM
Replace CPU
Remove all PCI cards
Reset BIOS
Repair XP from CD

The final option gave me a blue screen (just after selecting reinstall windows XP) with :

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down .....
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart ...... "

This screams hardware at me and the only thing left is the mobo, or should I try a format? specs below:

AMD XP2000
Gigabyte GA-7VKMP
DDR 256 - 266
Maxtor 40Gb
Geforce 4 64Mb

**DsLTech** · April 27th, 2004, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by buksida

Have an XP box here that wont boot, gets as far as the black winXP logo then just restarts, same place everytime. Heres what I've tried so far:

Replace RAM
Replace CPU
Remove all PCI cards
Reset BIOS
Repair XP from CD

The final option gave me a blue screen (just after selecting reinstall windows XP) with :

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down .....
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart ...... "

This screams hardware at me and the only thing left is the mobo, or should I try a format? specs below:

AMD XP2000
Gigabyte GA-7VKMP
DDR 256 - 266
Maxtor 40Gb
Geforce 4 64Mb

What about the Power Supply ? Sounds like that could be your issue.

**Tekboy** · April 27th, 2004, 08:57 AM

"Replace RAM
Replace CPU
Remove all PCI cards
Reset BIOS
Repair XP from CD "

Could be the HDD failing as well.

**ilovetheusers** · April 27th, 2004, 01:21 PM

Can you boot to safe mode? If so look for something in the startup.

Otherwise Start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...d_stp_ccgm.asp

**buksida** · April 27th, 2004, 10:10 PM

I think Tekboy was closest, continued to fiddle and it came up on the scandisk screen eventually. Let this run (which took about an hour), it repaired a couple of things and the beast started itself no worries. Still need to continue testing before i let the customer loose on it again!

**davepoet** · April 30th, 2004, 01:04 AM

I agree that it sounds like the power supply is either going bad or not powerful enough.

had the same problems on my first k7 board that I built. Power supply wasnt strong enough and was getting the exact same issues that you are describing. Put in a basic 300W and bam, everything was fine.

**srinipkweb** · April 30th, 2004, 05:15 AM

I had the same problem with my windows 98 machine. Finally when i replaced the processor it worked allright.
one more question. I wanted to install celeron 2 GHz in my Pc which originally conatained a 1.6GHz. Pentium 4 processor which went dead. But after I replaced the processor with the above celeron it does not boot. when i switched on the PC it gave a low frequency constant beeps with blank screen.My motherboard has intel 845 chipset.but it works well with another pentium 4 1.5Ghz. processor.
what may be the reason?