PC reboot loop
G'day all,
Ideas would be appreciated.
Night before last my pc was shutdown normally. Yesterday went to start it and came up with the "sorry for the inconvenience" screen, with the choice of boot options. If I continue, the screen disappears, and a moment later it's going through POST again, and returns to the "Sorry" screen. Try safe mode and it starts scrolling through the files. The last one seen is mup.dll (I think it was dll, definately mup, tho). Then it reboots. No joy with last good config.
I've removed all peripherals, pulled and swapped ram. PS is new. The hdd is working at least to the point that I can feel it accessing files. I have it out and plan on doing chkdsk in another machine along with various scans for any hidy things. It's a new (3 weeks) rebuild of Xp... really don't want to go through all that again so soon! :rolleyes2
Any thoughts?
Ideas would be appreciated.
Night before last my pc was shutdown normally. Yesterday went to start it and came up with the "sorry for the inconvenience" screen, with the choice of boot options. If I continue, the screen disappears, and a moment later it's going through POST again, and returns to the "Sorry" screen. Try safe mode and it starts scrolling through the files. The last one seen is mup.dll (I think it was dll, definately mup, tho). Then it reboots. No joy with last good config.
I've removed all peripherals, pulled and swapped ram. PS is new. The hdd is working at least to the point that I can feel it accessing files. I have it out and plan on doing chkdsk in another machine along with various scans for any hidy things. It's a new (3 weeks) rebuild of Xp... really don't want to go through all that again so soon! :rolleyes2
Any thoughts?
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Thanks Thrax, I'll give it a go. Suppose I'll have to do a diagnostic on the drive too, see if it's doing a dodgy on me... One good thing tho, the drive is accessable and I can get all my data.
Question, can I copy and paste my email in 2003? Or is it a lost cause without exporting it? Anyone?
Thanks again.
One solution I have seen many people claim works is to turn on some kind of power management option in the bios. As it happens that is set to off on the machine I'm having problems with, so my first port of call before a format will be to turn that on.
~Cyrix