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I have a new hd, new mother board, and an OEM copy of XP.
The board was made by ECS and I've currently got 256 megs
of PC 2700 DDR RAM in it (which it supports fine) and a
P4 clocked @ 1.7 GHz. The exact model is P4s5a made by
ECS and Im trying standard Windows XP Home Edition. The
power supply is 350 watts.
When I try booting and it gets to the place where you
select which user profile, then all drives wind down and
it starts to reboot. This just repeats. HELP. John
 
I have a new hd, new mother board, and an OEM copy of XP.
The board was made by ECS and I've currently got 256 megs
of PC 2700 DDR RAM in it (which it supports fine) and a
P4 clocked @ 1.7 GHz. The exact model is P4s5a made by
ECS and Im trying standard Windows XP Home Edition. The
power supply is 350 watts.
When I try booting and it gets to the place where you
select which user profile, then all drives wind down and
it starts to reboot. This just repeats. HELP. John
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Boot with your XP CDROM and do a Repair Install as per the
instructions at http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP
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"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
Uncheck the option of Reboot Automatically and then you should get the error message which will tell you the cause of the issue. Most likely a hardware problem.
 
I have a new hd, new mother board, and an OEM copy of XP.
The board was made by ECS and I've currently got 256 megs
of PC 2700 DDR RAM in it (which it supports fine) and a
P4 clocked @ 1.7 GHz. The exact model is P4s5a made by
ECS and Im trying standard Windows XP Home Edition. The
power supply is 350 watts.
When I try booting and it gets to the place where you
select which user profile, then all drives wind down and
it starts to reboot. This just repeats. HELP. John
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John,
Do you get any error messages, and to make sure we are on the same page,
exactly what page do you call the user profile page. You can refer to the
below which has screen shots to indicate the page.
Standard stuff to try,
Look for a BIOS update for your MB, there are 3 version of you MB, so make
sure you get the right BIOS flash.
Remove everything except the video card, hard drive, and CD-ROM drive. That
means any printer USB, etc..
If you have more than one stick of RAM, remove one and swap out the RAM
modules if you still have the problem.
Make sure all connections are getting good contact and that the CPU fan is
functioning.
Please post back with results.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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I have a new hd, new mother board, and an OEM copy of XP.
The board was made by ECS and I've currently got 256 megs
of PC 2700 DDR RAM in it (which it supports fine) and a
P4 clocked @ 1.7 GHz. The exact model is P4s5a made by
ECS and Im trying standard Windows XP Home Edition. The
power supply is 350 watts.
When I try booting and it gets to the place where you
select which user profile, then all drives wind down and
it starts to reboot. This just repeats. HELP. John
.
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I have tried pulling everything but the video card, RAM,
CD and hard drives, that doesnt have any effect. I have
reformated adn reinstalled XP a total of 6 times so far
with both FAT32 and NTFS systems on the HD. I've done
a "repair install" a few times as well. The user select
screen I was refering to is the light blue-ish screen
which displays all the different users' "accounts" where
you select one and then go to the desktop (e.g.; John
Guest Admin etc). The fact that it gets to this screen
leads me to believe that nothing in wrong with XP as the
boot record seems to be intact.

Where is this option to disable auto reboot you spoke of
earlier, I am pretty sure I can fix this if I know what
error is occuring.

Thanks
John
 
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