Boot restart problems

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Lo all,

I have seen the following error twice now on 2 different machines, each however running WinXP along with AMD XP's CPU’s

What has happened to them both is that they have fallen over and are continually rebooting themselves, they will not boot into windows in any way shape or form.

1 of these 2 happened a few months ago and I took the decision to revert back to an old OS, however this time I need to save this XP installation.

So far I have booted to the Repair console and checked the disk, with the result of no errors found.
I have copied the kernel32.dll off the cd back to the system32 folder, but this has failed to resolve the issue, therefore I assume it is a registry error as the logo appears and then a quick blue screen appears before the reboot.

I now face the horrid task of installing a fresh copy of XP parallel with the current faulty copy and running regedit on the original reg files - (as per technet Q307545) before I attempt this can anyone help? or advise.

Many thanks

[freddy]

simular prob on a machine the other day , i booted from cd-rom and waited for it to find a previous version of windowz then ran repair.

it continued to load xp OVER the orig but took 30-40 mins , when i went back to there office they said it was perfect ,try it!!!

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how did you run the repaire ? as it asks me for the Auto system recovery disk etc,
Did you just overwrite your copy of XP, cos all i can do if i don't press R, is to install XP again.

Thanks for the speedy reply.

James

[freddy]

somebody back me up here !!!!


when u boot from cd-rom DONT press "R" for repair , wait a while and the box comes up "checkin to see if u have windoze installed" ,,,,then it gives option to repair ,,it seemed to remove some files (cant remember if it rebooted) but then it asked for cd-rom and did a 30-40min install

ps im in preston lancs ,,,,if u need more e-mail and i,ll give a land line.

alan

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Thanks again m8,

I know this option is available in win2k but it seems to be missing in xp,
However i'm not 100% sure, as i cant check here at work and i dont think we've got a machine here with XP on. I'll have to have a hunt arround the Dev rooms to find one


Cheers
James

[freddy]

have e-mailed u ,,,,check your mail


alan

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just replying now


Done, check your mail.

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Yey,
Fixed the problem this morning - had to install another copy of XP to turn of the autorestart command in the reg - this enabled me to see the Stop error and resolve the issue via regedit.....

I would recommend that everyone who uses XP turns of this command.