quick question

[moooo]

Friends box keeps rebooting when it should be about to start windows. It detects the hard drive/cdrom drive and all. He just finished windows update and then it started doing it. Not sure what exactly the problem could be.

boot sequence:

ram check/del for bios
dects drives
after that it just reboots when it should say "loading windows 2000"

Not sure if he should format the drive and/or it could be ram/powersupply gone bad.


-moooo-

 

[Un4gIvEn1]

I would start by resetting the BIOS. I do not think it's a Windows thing.

 

[moooo]

nope =(

i reset bio and no luck. i just gonna format his box. He prolly did something stupid and/or his box is a piece of poop anyway (one of the pcusa mobo amd900duron with pc100 ram ) so he gets what he paid for.. $250 he shouldn't expect the greatest box in the world

 

[Un4gIvEn1]

If it isn't even comming up to "Loading Windows" then it may be something else altogether. Try booting to something else, even a floppy or CD just to make sure it gets past the POST.

 

[rushm001]

Does it detect the drives properly?

 

[SPeedY_B]

If you need something to boot with (and have the recources available to download and burn it) then grab DamnSmallLinux from here: http://damnsmalllinux.org/
I often use it if my machine wont boot as a test and/or quick backup operating system.

 

[Un4gIvEn1]

Emergency Boot CD - http://www.t4k.org/~ebcd/
Bart's PE Builder - http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Two really great utilities. (the first one really rocks, haven't had much time to play with the second)