XP Pro 64 bit restarting before bootup

courage97courage97
edited September 2005 in Science & Tech
I am trying to install XP Pro 64 bit with and AMD Athlon 64 bit 2800+ processor. The problem is that after the installation seems complete, when the bios loads and the XP 64 bit window pops up for a tenth of a second, then the computer restarts, and continues to restart until I turn it off, or hit del during the start windows normally turns off the timer. Any suggestions?

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2005
    First I'd try re-installing it a gain with a full format. It's very possible that you got a corrupted file while installing it. The other possibility that usually causes this is bad ram.
  • rapturerapture
    edited September 2005
    Can you not get anywhere with safe mode?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2005
    rapture wrote:
    Can you not get anywhere with safe mode?


    From the sounds of the restart point it's before the safemode prompt.
  • rapturerapture
    edited September 2005
    Is that possible?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2005
    Sure if it's crashing just after post at the first windows thing.
  • rapturerapture
    edited September 2005
    If you hold F8 windows wont even have a chance to start loading, this may be something simple like a driver error, loading in safe mode may make it easier to see which one fails. After that a quick recovery console visit to either disable or reinstall the component may fix things.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2005
    You know you could be right been a long time since I've had to go into safe mode. I though though there was one screen after you start hitting f8 that loads before it comes up with the safe mode prompt.
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