WinXP reboot on login

AMX · Post by **AMX** » 2007-11-12 10:15am

What it says. The thing reboots itself after login, and I'm supposed to do something about it, but have no idea what.

Happens erratically - sometimes not at all, sometimes several times in a row.
Sometimes it shows an error message afterwards (the "please report this problem to Microsoft" thing), but not always.

The event log shows a system error for each reboot:
Category (102) Event 1003
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C000001D BCP2 : * BCP3 : F8954C2C BCP4 : 00000000

*BCP2 varies - I've seen F7830EED, F715AEED, F78B5EED, F79ACEED, and F779FEED

So... anybody got any ideas?
I'd rather avoid a reinstall, since the disk appears to be AWOL.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2007-11-12 10:17am

It's a stupid question, but does it happen in a login for any user? What about safemode?

AMX · Post by **AMX** » 2007-11-12 10:23am

Ace Pace wrote:It's a stupid question, but does it happen in a login for any user?

Yes, all 2 of them.

What about safemode?

Hang on, I'll go test that...

edit: right now, it refuses to happen at all.
This could take a while...

DogsOfWar · Post by **DogsOfWar** » 2007-11-12 10:39am

Might want to test the ram, if you have access to another computer you could download a copy of Ubuntu and boot into memtest mode (plus you could boot into Ubuntu itself and access your HDD).

AMX · Post by **AMX** » 2007-11-12 11:01am

Safe mode seems to work fine.
(I'm almost sure that it wasn't a fluke.)

edit: and Memtest 3.6 doesn't find anything wrong with the RAM
I'll give up for today and go to sleep

Scottish Ninja · Post by **Scottish Ninja** » 2007-11-12 05:37pm

Okay, first question - what have you changed recently?

AMX · Post by **AMX** » 2007-11-13 06:36am

Scottish Ninja wrote:Okay, first question - what have you changed recently?

It's not my machine - I don't even know how long it's been doing that, let alone what was done to it around that time.

Scottish Ninja · Post by **Scottish Ninja** » 2007-11-14 07:05pm

Ah. I was thinking that it might be some driver problem, as that's what Microsoft's been telling me for some time. I swear, half the questions on the XP test have something or other to do with drivers.

Considering what the point of safe mode is, I'm pretty sure that it's some sort of driver problem, actually. Unfortunately until you know what might have caused the problem I can't really recommend anything.