Help: Windows 2000 keeps restarting at login

joe_k_777 · 06-30-2004, 10:40 PM

Help: Windows 2000 keeps restarting at login. This has happened 3 times on 2 identical machines, only thing that was the same was a dvd liteon burner and dvdxcopy 3.2.1 which was swapped to the 2nd machine after had the same problem 2x in the first machine. Does anyone have any past experience with this prob or have any suggestion. motherboard is gigabyte ga-8s650gxm. Also note that the program/burner crashed during burning before this occurred. I believe it may be the burner but have suspicions about the motherboards?? as I've seen this before on a machine with out the burner, any help appreciated

chadderbox4 · 06-30-2004, 11:42 PM

Does your Motherboard support RAID?
If your not using it... disable it in safemode.

If not, try disabling your burner in safemode and see if it boots.

joe_k_777 · 07-01-2004, 12:29 AM

no raid on the motherboard, have tried taking the burner out and still keeps shutting down when windows logs in, will also try to disable it in safe mode, note: the pc does boot fine and log in, in safe mode

for anyone thats interested i found this helpfull idea which i will try as soon as i get the machine back

"Can Try this -
Go to Start / Settings / Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Settings. Make sure the box is UNCHECKED where it says "Automatically Restart" under System Failure."
When there are no HW / SW Changes made to the system, it works!

check for any USB devices connected / check for the Windows Updates and the SW updates for USB device too. "

chadderbox4 · 07-01-2004, 08:17 AM

Give it a shot

joe_k_777 · 07-04-2004, 02:40 AM

this stopped the machine from rebooting all the time :-)

I was therefore able to see the stop error after login. The stop error had a file name, so i went back into safe mode and renamed that file, rebooted and there was a different stop error so i booted into safe mode and renamed that file eg: blah.sys to blah.old rebooted and started fine. Turns out that a incorrect driver had been installed.

thanks for your help.

chadderbox4 · 07-05-2004, 02:14 PM

Not a problem. Glad i could help you.
Chad

06-30-2004, 10:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
joe_k_777 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3 OS: 2000	Help: Windows 2000 keeps restarting at login Help: Windows 2000 keeps restarting at login. This has happened 3 times on 2 identical machines, only thing that was the same was a dvd liteon burner and dvdxcopy 3.2.1 which was swapped to the 2nd machine after had the same problem 2x in the first machine. Does anyone have any past experience with this prob or have any suggestion. motherboard is gigabyte ga-8s650gxm. Also note that the program/burner crashed during burning before this occurred. I believe it may be the burner but have suspicions about the motherboards?? as I've seen this before on a machine with out the burner, any help appreciated

07-01-2004, 12:29 AM	#3 (permalink)
joe_k_777 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3 OS: 2000	no raid on the motherboard, have tried taking the burner out and still keeps shutting down when windows logs in, will also try to disable it in safe mode, note: the pc does boot fine and log in, in safe mode for anyone thats interested i found this helpfull idea which i will try as soon as i get the machine back "Can Try this - Go to Start / Settings / Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Settings. Make sure the box is UNCHECKED where it says "Automatically Restart" under System Failure." When there are no HW / SW Changes made to the system, it works! check for any USB devices connected / check for the Windows Updates and the SW updates for USB device too. " Last edited by joe_k_777; 07-01-2004 at 12:29 AM.

06-30-2004, 11:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
chadderbox4 Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Indiana Posts: 27 OS: WindowsXP, Fedora Core 1	Does your Motherboard support RAID? If your not using it... disable it in safemode. If not, try disabling your burner in safemode and see if it boots.

07-01-2004, 08:17 AM	#4 (permalink)
chadderbox4 Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Indiana Posts: 27 OS: WindowsXP, Fedora Core 1	Give it a shot

07-04-2004, 02:40 AM	#5 (permalink)
joe_k_777 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3 OS: 2000	this stopped the machine from rebooting all the time :-) I was therefore able to see the stop error after login. The stop error had a file name, so i went back into safe mode and renamed that file, rebooted and there was a different stop error so i booted into safe mode and renamed that file eg: blah.sys to blah.old rebooted and started fine. Turns out that a incorrect driver had been installed. thanks for your help.

07-05-2004, 02:14 PM	#6 (permalink)
chadderbox4 Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Indiana Posts: 27 OS: WindowsXP, Fedora Core 1	Not a problem. Glad i could help you. Chad