XP MCE stuck in a permanent reboot loop?

Cliff_Forster

Friend of mine, having computer trouble, so I am taking a look. Its a OEM machine, gateway 820GM, and wouldnt ya know it, no restore disk,,, so....

Lets describe the behavior first, system gets to the XP splash screen with the little progress bar, sits there for a couple seconds, cuts out, reboots each time. Safe mode will not boot either.

So, I pull out the trusty little disk I made to grant me access to the recovery console at least, do all the usual, fixmbr, fixboot, that does not work. I try to chkdsk, it won't allow it for some reason?

So, I pull out the old trusty Ultimate Boot CD, check the disk integrity from there, everything checks out okay, so I go to memory, CPU, all hardware seems to be fine. I'm thinking this has to be an OS bug of some kind, perhaps corruption with the kernel loading?

Mind you, I don't have a proper disk to repair the OS, or I would be doing that now, does anyone have any bright ideas, perhaps something I'm not thinking of?

Thanks.

Thrax

If the OS is stuck in a reboot loop and everything checks out fine, it's most certainly a corrupt operating system. I've never found anything that can reliably recover a system from this state without a reformat, so I'm afraid your friend is likely SOL without a copy of Windows.

Cliff_Forster

Thrax wrote:

If the OS is stuck in a reboot loop and everything checks out fine, it's most certainly a corrupt operating system. I've never found anything that can reliably recover a system from this state without a reformat, so I'm afraid your friend is likely SOL without a copy of Windows.

Thats about where I am in the troubleshooting, I'm afraid a repair installation is the only thing left.

I'll have to contact Gateway, see how they are about sending out a restoration disk.