Endless Reboot cycle, post Repair Install
Well I do hope I put this in the right section. I'm afraid my tech savy outside a laboratory is just non-existent.
In a nutshell, I came back from an evening out, was checking email, etc...and partway through opening new pages, the entire screen froze. After Ctrl-Alt-Del and Break failed to end it, I simply restarted the computer.
I was taken to the standard windows is logging in screen, and it froze, and had to be restarted after about five minutes. The second time it only progressed to the loading screen with the moving blue bar. At that point I decided to try safe mode. The usual screen of drivers and files flashed down, and it froze on a Jgogo.sys, then rebooted. After a few failed attempts i hopped on my laptop and looked up jgogo.sys. There was a general consensus in the most common google results, to use your windows XP Recovery Console, to disable jgogo.sys.
Following that safe mode simply hung up on MUP.sys. Getting the idea that the last visible file MAY not be the problem...I decided to go to Recovery console again and do a suggested Chkdsk /p /r c:
That resulted in a "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems."
Likewise a fixboot c: could not open the partition.
The last on the list of recommended actions from the recovery console, fixmbr produced no result at all.
At this point I went with a repair install. [I had attempted that before the jgogo chagne, once, but the system reset itself at 55%. Removing jgogo.sys at allowed the repair install to complete]
Sadly when the repair install finished, the system began a cycle of reboots, the windows loading bar flashes for a second, a blue screen appears and disappears to quickly for me to read the error, and computer reset. In a chain. Attempts to press f8 and restart in safe mode [which is not even an automatic option in the chain resets now, i have to manually bring up the page] result in the earlier error of hanging up in the mup.sys section.
At this point I'll repeat the phrases you've probably heard a BILLION times in these forums a) I'd really love to not lose all the files on my system. b) I'd really not like to buy an entire new system. You probably don't need to be told most of that since if I was ready for either option I'd probably have skipped coming here for help and just bought a new one and tossed the hard drive at the computer store and begged them to get the files transferred.
Still if it comes to that, I can deal, I just wanted to try exhausting other options first.
In closing, I am not 100% sure this is in the right forum, but since Windows XP repair install was the most recent thing to continue the chain of breaking, I figured i'd post under OS. I can move it if it belongs somewhere else.
I also realize you probably need system specifications. I can happily provide whatever you ask for, as long as you let me know how or where to find the information you are seeking. I can passively navigate a BIOS and always use a flashlight in the tower to find the information, I just have to know where/what I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance for reading this,
Josh
In a nutshell, I came back from an evening out, was checking email, etc...and partway through opening new pages, the entire screen froze. After Ctrl-Alt-Del and Break failed to end it, I simply restarted the computer.
I was taken to the standard windows is logging in screen, and it froze, and had to be restarted after about five minutes. The second time it only progressed to the loading screen with the moving blue bar. At that point I decided to try safe mode. The usual screen of drivers and files flashed down, and it froze on a Jgogo.sys, then rebooted. After a few failed attempts i hopped on my laptop and looked up jgogo.sys. There was a general consensus in the most common google results, to use your windows XP Recovery Console, to disable jgogo.sys.
Following that safe mode simply hung up on MUP.sys. Getting the idea that the last visible file MAY not be the problem...I decided to go to Recovery console again and do a suggested Chkdsk /p /r c:
That resulted in a "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems."
Likewise a fixboot c: could not open the partition.
The last on the list of recommended actions from the recovery console, fixmbr produced no result at all.
At this point I went with a repair install. [I had attempted that before the jgogo chagne, once, but the system reset itself at 55%. Removing jgogo.sys at allowed the repair install to complete]
Sadly when the repair install finished, the system began a cycle of reboots, the windows loading bar flashes for a second, a blue screen appears and disappears to quickly for me to read the error, and computer reset. In a chain. Attempts to press f8 and restart in safe mode [which is not even an automatic option in the chain resets now, i have to manually bring up the page] result in the earlier error of hanging up in the mup.sys section.
At this point I'll repeat the phrases you've probably heard a BILLION times in these forums a) I'd really love to not lose all the files on my system. b) I'd really not like to buy an entire new system. You probably don't need to be told most of that since if I was ready for either option I'd probably have skipped coming here for help and just bought a new one and tossed the hard drive at the computer store and begged them to get the files transferred.
Still if it comes to that, I can deal, I just wanted to try exhausting other options first.
In closing, I am not 100% sure this is in the right forum, but since Windows XP repair install was the most recent thing to continue the chain of breaking, I figured i'd post under OS. I can move it if it belongs somewhere else.
I also realize you probably need system specifications. I can happily provide whatever you ask for, as long as you let me know how or where to find the information you are seeking. I can passively navigate a BIOS and always use a flashlight in the tower to find the information, I just have to know where/what I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance for reading this,
Josh
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If I read that correctly, it almost seems that every time you boot up you get farther and farther away from a successful start.....like it's getting worse. And the message about the volume containing unrecoverable errors is another clue. Before you do anything else, you might want to confirm that basic integrity of the hard drive. Some manufacturers have a hard drive diagnostics built into the BIOS (Dell and Lenovo come to mind). If you Google "Hard Drive Fitness Test" you see a good one. If it's a Seagate drive they have a diagnostic you can download from their site.
But I'd confirm that drive is worth wasting time on before I went further.
Eagerly awaiting step 2.
Anyway, similar thread just a couple days ago here. His hal.dll was dead so they were telling him to do a clean install. I would tell you to try a repair install but you already did, and got no where. Since we now know that hard drive is healthy, you need to pull off your data and do a clean install with new drive formatting.
Since you did a repair install, I assume you have a disk for a clean install. Do you know how to get your data off first? You can either put that drive in another computer that has the same type of connectors (meaning SATA or IDE) and just transfer is stright over to the other drive, or for less than $20 you can buy a USB hard drive adapter that will bascially turn your hard drive into a USB flash drive. Here's one at NewEgg. Either way, dump all your files on your laptop, then do the clean install. Make sure you delete the partition and reformat from nothing. No sense going through all of this and reusing a suspect file system.