Preface: We should totally have a new forum section for this =o
K so liek.
This problem happened before but it went away. Basically what happens is that XP starts up like normal and then completely restarts after it gets to the Welcome screen. I see a cursor for about 3 seconds then it goes out. Not a "soft" restart either. It's like pressing the reset button on the case... if I had one.
I've googled the problem and come up empty. People with similar problems couldn't boot into safemode and I could. Unchecking "restart on failure" or whatever didn't work as it was already unchecked. I removed all programs that I thought might cause the problem on startup and allowed Windows to dump its savefile and start anew on restart.
I WOULD do an XP recovery except that I put in the CD and let it do its thing and hit R to recover and it tells me "You don't have a hard drive." Yay.
Last time I tried a recovery and failed, I was forced to restart and it got through. I tried again and again like this and still haven't gotten in since then. Safe mode still works at least. Last known working configuration does not.
ONCE I actually saw an error message I think. I never get BSODed or see any kind of dump of an error message. Nothing was recently installed (Except Oblivion, but I highly doubt a game causes this. It's not even in my startup programs). My startup programs are just ctfmon, peerguardian, MSAntiSpyware, and ZoneAlarm. None of them had recent errors associated with them.
I'm at work now and won't be home for another few hours, so I can't try anything you suggest. Just post away and I'll go through them all when I get home. I'll see if I can reply along the way.
~Squeek
K so liek.
This problem happened before but it went away. Basically what happens is that XP starts up like normal and then completely restarts after it gets to the Welcome screen. I see a cursor for about 3 seconds then it goes out. Not a "soft" restart either. It's like pressing the reset button on the case... if I had one.
I've googled the problem and come up empty. People with similar problems couldn't boot into safemode and I could. Unchecking "restart on failure" or whatever didn't work as it was already unchecked. I removed all programs that I thought might cause the problem on startup and allowed Windows to dump its savefile and start anew on restart.
I WOULD do an XP recovery except that I put in the CD and let it do its thing and hit R to recover and it tells me "You don't have a hard drive." Yay.
Last time I tried a recovery and failed, I was forced to restart and it got through. I tried again and again like this and still haven't gotten in since then. Safe mode still works at least. Last known working configuration does not.
ONCE I actually saw an error message I think. I never get BSODed or see any kind of dump of an error message. Nothing was recently installed (Except Oblivion, but I highly doubt a game causes this. It's not even in my startup programs). My startup programs are just ctfmon, peerguardian, MSAntiSpyware, and ZoneAlarm. None of them had recent errors associated with them.
I'm at work now and won't be home for another few hours, so I can't try anything you suggest. Just post away and I'll go through them all when I get home. I'll see if I can reply along the way.
~Squeek
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