more continuous rebooting

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installed 32-bit vista beta 2 on my old dell laptop with pentium m1.6 and
512meg ram. clean install not an upgrade over XP pro. it loaded and i got
it to boot last night. this afternoon i logged in, started IE7 and it
rebooted. now it won't boot in any mode. it just reboots. i tried the
recovery console and it says it can't find any issue.
anything i can do besides reinstalling?
 
Next time you install, first thing turn off automatic restart so you will
see the error message and can get help.
 
Disconnect as many devices as you can and still use the computer.
Especially usb devices. Vista still has some issues with usb.
 
Jslotts--

I'd do this in addition to what has been offered:

1) Run chkdsk /R by bringing up your run box and typing in depending on
whatever drive Vista is on--here I'll use C:\

chkdsk c: /r (not case sensitive). A cmd prompt will say do you wanna run
next boot y/n and you type in y>enter>close all>restart.

2) One "trick" that helps some people in addition to the above with shutdown
hangs is to go to run>devmbmt.msc>USB Controllers>Rt. Click All Root Hub
Entries>Power Mgmt tab(far right)> Unck. that box for all Root Hub entries
(Repeat each entry).

3) Following these simple steps often helps with random autorestarts since
there is often a nexus with shutdown hanging and restarting behind the
scenes: (Yes I know the title but it often helps with random autorestarts).
I excluded several other well meaning references that don't help.

Troubleshooting Shutdown
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Troubleshooting-Windows-Shutdown.html

CH
 
I agree. On this particular laptop I like to use a more powerful
USB wireless adaptor, even though my laptop has a built in wireless
card. At times, it just stops working- I can't connect to my wireless
router or anything. Although the icon in the systray says I am
still connected to Local and Internet. If I unplug the adaptor
and plug it back it back in, it still doesn't work. However, if I plug it into a different USB
slot, it comes back to life. Never had problems
with it in XP and my built in wireless card works flawlessly with
Vista, although, at slower transfer speeds. I have four computers
networked together and I prefer the faster throughput I get from
the USB wireless adaptor.



-Michael
 
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