System reboots on startup

I have a mcahine which will reboot continuously upon startup. It goes to the
opening screen of windows 2000 then the screen goes blank and reboots. I had
the same problem with this machine about a month ago. So I reformated the
hard drive and everything seemed to work fine. Now it started doing the
exact same thing. I ran a very thorough memory test and the memory passed. I
updated the bios with the latest version, I installed a different video.

What could be causing this?

Could it be bad drive? Possibly a bad controller on the motherboard?

the system has the following configuration:
Asus A7N8X
AMD XP 2200
512 MB RAM
lastest bios
Maxtor 40 GB HD

 

A few months ago there was a virus going around that caused frequent
reboots. Have you run a virus scan with current definitions?

 

Blaster worm could be doing it. Unplug the thing from the internet, and
start it in safe mode, and try turning on the windows firewall
temporarily. If it works ok unplugged from the internet, then its is a
worm. Unless you don't have it connected to the internet at all, then
its something else.

 

Good point, but I don't think this is a virus. The machine is connected to
our network with a corporate edition of antivirus with all the updates. I
did try installing the drive in another machine and it would hang on the
opening screen of windows. I am going to install a new hard drive.

Thanks for your feeback

 

Well, if it's hanging on another machine, then that pretty much rules out
the power supply or cpu(which is what I would have also considered).

Mark Mandell

 

"> Well, if it's hanging on another machine, then that pretty much rules out

you can't just install a drive with an operating system in another machine
and expect it to boot unless the machine is basicaly identical
are you able to boot to safe mode? have you recently installed any new
software? Have you recenlty done any windows updates? The problem can be
virutally anything from hardware to software related including viruses an
incomplete install of service packs will do this as well. determine what
happend just before this started and go from there

 

Even so, this worm spreads itself pretty quickly. As soon as I
installed windows XP on my Dads Computer, I found out it already had the
worm, and I didn't even go on the Internet, just hooking it up to the
network is all it took. I would run the virus check anyways.

 

Uh......... you should be asking the guy who posted this originally & not
me.

Mark

 

Its SUPPOSED to hang when you do that! lol

Boot into a system disk...then access the hard drive. If it doesn't
reboot, you simply have a software problem.

Turn off the option in w2k to reboot on critical errors. That's
probably why its rebooting.


Have a nice week...

Trent

If the cheese isn't yours...its Nacho cheese, man!

 

It could be caused by corrupted files, corrupted registry.