| alanmason |
| (regular) |
| Sat Jun 06 2009 08:02 PM |
XP booting endless loop
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Hi,
I’m having intermittent trouble starting Windows XP Pro SP3 on my desktop. Sometimes it starts fine and sometimes it doesn’t. When it’s not behaving it will go to the “Windows encountered a problem, what do you want to do, start in safe mode, with networking, last known good config or start normally”. From here it won’t start normally or in safe mode, sometimes the last known good config works, but not always. Sometimes switching off for a minute will do the trick. All these solutions are hit and miss, they don’t always work. On extreme occasions I have to resort to the XP install disk. If I do nothing it will try to boot normally but crashes and tries to restart this is the endless cycle.
I have run all the usual cleanup progs and antivirus, firewall, spyware security i.e. Ccleaner, Spybot search & destroy, Auslogic defrag, Eusing reg cleaner, AGV 8.0 and Zone alarm. I don’t think there is anything malicious going on or that my system is full of junk.
I have a Micro-Star motherboard with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz with 2gig of ram.
I’ve seen another post with a very similar problem here by gazmix but I don’t think the issue was resolved. From this post I investigated by C: drive using the WD Diagnostics utility, it passed the extended test. I also ran the CHKDSK utility and I guess it passed that too although the results flash up for only a second then the machine continues booting.
Any ideas of how to solve this problem will be gratefully received.
Maymo
