Windows gets to loading screen then reboots

dun-dun-dun

ok, I got a asus a7n8x-e motherboard recently. I remember having all my components installed, and everything worked perfectly for a week. Then one morning I went to power on and it got to the windows loading screen.... passed a few bars.... then reboots.... so then I tried to go into "last known good settings that worked". Then the same thing happened. So then i figured Id try safe mode.... THAT WONT WORK EITHER. So then I reformatted. And then my computer worked fine..... for about 3 power ons.... then it started rebooting again. I thought it was the ati drivers so then I reformatted, and this time around I didnt install them.... as it happends.... the ati drivers werent the problem. So I reformatted again. This time I was like hmm I disabled "messenger service" all those times... maybe thats it. I reformatted.. and its still doing it. I thought it was my tv tuners drivers, so I reformatted again and didnt install them... and it still happends.... I even tried 2 different hard drives and it still does it.

Well I guess you get the idea.

Im running windows xp pro +sp1, 1.5 gigs of ram in dual channel mode, 9800 pro, hidtv tuner, and a maxtor ide pci card. Ive tried running my system without all those cards and I still get the problem.

anyone have any clues?? some virus or something? bad mobo?

drowd

hmmm. well this is my experience with reboots, anyone correct me if i am wrong. if it keeps rebooting but it is not necessarily at the same time (for instance, if you get farther in a cold boot after several hours of it being off than a reboot after it is running) then that is a problem related to your CPU overheating. However, if it keeps getting to the exact same point, and THEN it reboots (like initializing raid controllers, etc) then there is a problem with the bios etc. anyway, thats what i know, hope it helps

timinator

seriously? i just had a friends comp do the
EXACT same thing, except it was a dell dimension p4 on XP home, and i had to renbuild the boot thingie before i could even get to those options. i didnt know how to do anything without reformatting, so i told them to send it to dell (still had a warrenty) after i copied important stuff off the harddrive.

on another note, that also happens if the BIOS version is newer than the windows drivers, and also if older drivers are installed for SCSI/RAID devices, so if you reformat again, try getting new IDE drivers

dun-dun-dun

yeah it always reboots at nearly the same time, maybe a few minute seconds off. All it does is gets to the loading screen and a few bars pass could be 1 or 2, then it reboots. its not cause of overheating thats for sure. I checked my fan and its working, not to mention my temps are at 96F (after being on for hours when I had windows working). I could get into the bios no problems no reboots. Just when it comes to loading windows. I even removed any serial ata/raid drives. Just my cd drive and windows drive were in there and it would do it. Swapped out ram and still. Leaving the computer alone for hours doesnt fix it too. Id do a cold boot in the morning after I wake up. Thats what I did this morning. I can format and reinstall windows just fine and it will work all day, but after a few power downs it does this crap, and Id have to reformat again. Then it works again.. until I power down a few times

jnash007

Try removing all hardware except the basic needed things like memory, video and hd. See where that gets you. If it boots then start adding one piece at a time after several sucessful reboots, then add another piece of hardware etc. etc...

Try different video card after defaulting cmos settings if you can't get stripped down pc to boot at all. I know when i switched my video card it ran fine for a while then BANG it was doing the same thing as your pc... I had to add a fan to the P.O.S. and it be happy now.

keep us posted.