XP pro stuck in a reboot cycle

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Steve Henderson

Hopefully someone will have some info on this. My
computer reboots repeatidly when trying to boot. When
ran in safemode the last driver to load is something
called ALIM1541.sys and I can find no reference to what
this file is. I have applied the security patches and am
pretty certain its not MSBLAST as it never reaches the
desktop. It simply tries to boot and eventually a blue
screen appears but the machine reboots before it is
possible to read the crash message. It started doing
this overnight with no new software or hardware added in
the past month other than the msblast security patch
which was a week ago.

Specs:


* 1 GHZ AMD processer
* 512mb DDR ram
* I4400 video
* diamond sound card
* Win XP pro OS

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Thx

Steve H.
 
Steve Henderson said:
Hopefully someone will have some info on this. My
computer reboots repeatidly when trying to boot. When
ran in safemode the last driver to load is something
called ALIM1541.sys and I can find no reference to what
this file is. I have applied the security patches and am
pretty certain its not MSBLAST as it never reaches the
desktop. It simply tries to boot and eventually a blue
screen appears but the machine reboots before it is
possible to read the crash message. It started doing
this overnight with no new software or hardware added in
the past month other than the msblast security patch
which was a week ago.
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ALIM1541.sys apparently is the ALI AGP Bus Filter

Can you boot into Safe Mode?

If so then open Control Panel - System - Advanced and click on the
Settings button in the Startup and Recovery (bottom) section.

In the Startup and Recovery window click on the checkbox for
"automatically restart" in the System Failure (middle) section so as
to clear it.

While you are in there you might as well change the "Write debugging
information" option to either "none" or "small memory dump". The full
memory dump is of value only to systems programmers.


This change will stop the rebooting but it may just be replaced by a
"Blue Screen Of Death" STOP error. But in that case the contents of
the STOP message will be a direct clue as to the cause.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
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