Box keeps rebooting after...

[makntraks]

The box boots and goes to the choice screen.. log in safe mode, safe mode w/ networking, etc...

No matter which choice I use the PC just reboots and I wind up at the "choice" menu once again.....

I've replace the battery... let it sit w/ no electric power for 24 hrs, etc...

Any ideas??

Thanks...

makntraks

[budz]

if you have any extra ram lying around install it in your pc. remove the one you have in there and see if that helps. have you tested the hard drive to see if it's failing?

[TooLFooL]

sounds to me like errors on the drive. windows is encountering errors and can't boot. possibly corrupted file.. you need to run chkdsk on it, but of course you can only do this from windows, so you either need a boot disk, or need to add the drive to another pc and run it from there..

[Firiebob]

Could be anything, but I had the exact same thing and it was a bad stick of ram, as budz suggested.

[makntraks]

Thanks for the replies! I've swapped ram and that didn't make a difference.. I'm going to pull the drive and put it in another box and check the drive there....

Again thanks and I'll be back if checking the drive doesn't resolve the problem...

makntraks

[buttzilla]

Thanks for the replies! I've swapped ram and that didn't make a difference.. I'm going to pull the drive and put it in another box and check the drive there....

Again thanks and I'll be back if checking the drive doesn't resolve the problem...

makntraks

That probably won't work. You can't take a boot drive and put it in another computer and expect it to work. Sometimes it might but most times it won't because of different hardware configuration.

[GKar]

The box boots and goes to the choice screen.. log in safe mode, safe mode w/ networking, etc...

No matter which choice I use the PC just reboots and I wind up at the "choice" menu once again.....

I've replace the battery... let it sit w/ no electric power for 24 hrs, etc...

Any ideas??

Thanks...

makntraks

Did you make any changes, hardware or software to your system prior to the problem occurring?

[buttzilla]

sounds to me like errors on the drive. windows is encountering errors and can't boot. possibly corrupted file.. you need to run chkdsk on it, but of course you can only do this from windows, so you either need a boot disk, or need to add the drive to another pc and run it from there..

If he has the windows cd he can run the recovery console and run chkdsk /f from there. If Not here is a version that i uploaded to a host site. I didn't make this. i found this somewhere but I can't remember where. it is only 7mb.
http://files-upload.com/390477/RecoveryConsole.iso.html

[TooLFooL]

@buttzilla.. i mean install the drive in another computer as a SECOND drive. boot windows from the first, run chkdsk on the second.