Laptop continually restarting

bolty1203 · 06-12-2008, 10:52 AM

My brother asked if i could help with a problem he is having with his laptop. He has an Avent laptop running windows XP. When he tries powering it up the starpup process reaches the XP Logo and then goes back to the beginning of the startup process again, and so on. Would anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem. Thanks

cetkat · 06-14-2008, 01:16 AM

Tell him to press F8 when he starts up and select the last known good configuration option. If that doesn't work, try to get into safe mode through that same menu and do a system restore.

If he still can't get in, find out if he's getting a blue screen error & if he is, post that here. (Select 'don't automatically restart after failure' option to keep the error on the screen long enough to copy it down).

**TriggerFinger** · 06-14-2008, 09:10 AM

another way is to boot from your XP install CD and run CHKDSK /R in Recovery Console.

if the above still fails to work, try repairing Windows using the steps here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=189400897

06-12-2008, 10:52 AM	#1 (permalink)
bolty1203 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Laptop continually restarting My brother asked if i could help with a problem he is having with his laptop. He has an Avent laptop running windows XP. When he tries powering it up the starpup process reaches the XP Logo and then goes back to the beginning of the startup process again, and so on. Would anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem. Thanks

06-14-2008, 01:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
cetkat Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 211 OS: XP SP3	Re: Laptop continually restarting Tell him to press F8 when he starts up and select the last known good configuration option. If that doesn't work, try to get into safe mode through that same menu and do a system restore. If he still can't get in, find out if he's getting a blue screen error & if he is, post that here. (Select 'don't automatically restart after failure' option to keep the error on the screen long enough to copy it down).

06-14-2008, 09:10 AM	#3 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,853 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Laptop continually restarting another way is to boot from your XP install CD and run CHKDSK /R in Recovery Console. if the above still fails to work, try repairing Windows using the steps here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=189400897 __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE