rebooting indefinitely

[david]

I am trying to reboot my window 2000 professional. It is
rebooting continuously. It goes through the normal booting
process, but once the GUI screen appears, the monitor goes
black for a few seconds and the booting process starts all
over again- and it goes on and on indefinitely. Hope
someone out there can help me out. Thanks in advance.

David

 

[dcdon]

Your probably getting Blue Screen and have your computer set to
automatically reboot.

Dave Patrick said to do the following:

Are you saying you get a blue screen stop error? To be able to see the blue
screen stop message; Control Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, I
usually like to uncheck "Automatically reboot" this way you get a chance to
read the stop error.

Windows 2000 Stop Messages
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/win2000/win2ksrv/reskit/sopch16.asp

Bug Check Codes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ddtools/hh/ddtools/bcintro_3dkj.asp


by Dave
from don
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I am trying to reboot my window 2000 professional. It is
rebooting continuously. It goes through the normal booting
process, but once the GUI screen appears, the monitor goes
black for a few seconds and the booting process starts all
over again- and it goes on and on indefinitely. Hope
someone out there can help me out. Thanks in advance.

David

 

[gregdil]

i've been having similar problems as david.....
1st with XP after installing blaster update,
2nd with win2k after installing video card.
problem is how to get the thing to boot so that you can
turn off the automatic reboot switch!!!

pressing F8 during boot will bring up the list of boot
options...try booting to safe mode, if it works at least
then you can turn of the automatically reboot switch!

if that doesn't work, boot from the cd to recovery
console, and run chkdsk /r...
this helped for me but i don't know why....

i've since turned off the automatically reboot switch,
but i am still afraid to re-boot....

greg