Re: PC continually rebooting


"PC Paul" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Steven Campbell wrote:
> > Looking for some advice.
> > I have an older machine that I put WinXp on to. Everything was fine
> > for the week that I used it. I then installed SP2 onto it. Now it
> > won't boot.
> >
> > It gets to beyond the flashscreen and then reboots.
> >
> > In safe mode the last driver to load is Drivers\mup.sys, the screen
> > then goes black as if it is continuing to boot. 20 seconds later the
> > PC reboots.
> >
> > Starting again is no problem as there is nothing on it, but the whole
> > idea of this PC is for me to mess about with and learn so I'd like to
> > try and fix it if possible.
> >
>
> Is it a Celeron? If so there was a problem with SP2 and certain BIOSes
that
> didn't have built in support for some fiddly bit of the Celeron code. Look
> at MS KB885626 for details.
>
> SP2 automatically reboots when it would previously have bluescreened. You
> can disable this by going into safe mode, then using the System control
> panel, advanced, settings, system failure and unchecking 'automatically
> restart'.
>
> You should at least get more information from the blue screen that you'll
> get this time to help track down what's going wrong.
>
> mup.sys is 99% of the time a red herring - it's just the last driver
loaded
> in that phase of startup before XP proper gets going.

It's an AMD K6 500.
I'm not sure what you mean re System control panel, advanced..............
It won't boot at all full stop. Even in safe mode :o(
It just cycles regardless of what option I choose when selecting F8
I'll have a look at the MS knowledge base number you sent me.

--
Steven
If replying don't give me any cheek ;o)


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