Windows XP & Boot Problems

fnord · Post by **fnord** » 2006-01-28 07:32am

This has not been fun.

My Win XP Pro box, after having been powered down for the past six weeks, has started acting up somewhat when I powered it up tonight.

When I turn the box on, it runs through the POST no problems, then brings up the "We apologise for the inconvenience, but Windows didn't start successfully" screen. No matter what I do (option picked, letting timer run down, etc), the box doesn't boot to Windows, instead it reboots, ad nauseam. It does manage to get past the "We apologise" screen and some text shows on the screen, but the box reboots too quickly for me to make it out.

According to the SmartDoc Anti-Burn Shield in the BIOS, (AMIBIOS 3.31a), CPU temp is stable at the meaning of life (42 deg C).

Any ideas what would cause the constant rebooting?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2006-01-28 07:49am

Nine times out of ten a wankered startup file is causing this.

Boot from your Winxp CD and run chkdsk /r from the recovery console, that might sort it out.

fnord · Post by **fnord** » 2006-01-29 08:42pm

Thanks. That fixed it.

Had to turn the place upside down to find the win xp cd, though.