[SOLVED] Win keeps rebooting during startup

chiccodoro · 09-10-2008, 02:38 AM

Dear all,

some hours ago, I was working on a Win2k server. Because it was performing exceptingly bad, I wanted to stop a running instance of the Apache 2 Webserver. The last thing I could see was the opening terminal of the "stop server" batch script.

In the meanwhile I was drinking my coffee. When I returned, the system was starting up for whatever reason. Since then, Windows keeps rebooting during the startup process, just about when the startup progress bar gets to 100%.

I also tried "safe mode" and "safe mode (with console)", as well as "debugging mode". Neither of these worked better at all.

I did not dare to try "last good configuraiton" because I do not know what configurations have been done since then which would then be lost.

I entered BIOS to view my CPU temperature. With about 40°C I hold it for quite normal.

Has anyone an idea how to proceed now?

Thx in advance, chiccodoro

chiccodoro · 09-10-2008, 11:02 AM

FYI, I could not even start Knoppix (a Linux live CD) without that problem. So I guess it was the mainboard. I found an other old computer with a similar/equal mainboard, a little bit faster CPU, and placed the HDD plus the RAM's in there. Now it seems to work fine again.

rthomp8363 · 09-20-2008, 09:06 PM

reseating memory on the old computer could of solved the problem also.

chiccodoro · 09-22-2008, 12:12 AM

indeed. at least I made BIOS test them. there are two test modes, a slow and a fast one, and I activated the slow one. However, BIOS did not find any curruption. Thus I assumed that the problem sit in the mainboard or so.

09-10-2008, 02:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
chiccodoro Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Win2000	[SOLVED] Win keeps rebooting during startup Dear all, some hours ago, I was working on a Win2k server. Because it was performing exceptingly bad, I wanted to stop a running instance of the Apache 2 Webserver. The last thing I could see was the opening terminal of the "stop server" batch script. In the meanwhile I was drinking my coffee. When I returned, the system was starting up for whatever reason. Since then, Windows keeps rebooting during the startup process, just about when the startup progress bar gets to 100%. I also tried "safe mode" and "safe mode (with console)", as well as "debugging mode". Neither of these worked better at all. I did not dare to try "last good configuraiton" because I do not know what configurations have been done since then which would then be lost. I entered BIOS to view my CPU temperature. With about 40°C I hold it for quite normal. Has anyone an idea how to proceed now? Thx in advance, chiccodoro

09-10-2008, 11:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
chiccodoro Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Win2000	Re: Win keeps rebooting during startup FYI, I could not even start Knoppix (a Linux live CD) without that problem. So I guess it was the mainboard. I found an other old computer with a similar/equal mainboard, a little bit faster CPU, and placed the HDD plus the RAM's in there. Now it seems to work fine again.

09-20-2008, 09:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
rthomp8363 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 69 OS: XP	Re: [SOLVED] Win keeps rebooting during startup reseating memory on the old computer could of solved the problem also.

09-22-2008, 12:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
chiccodoro Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Win2000	Re: [SOLVED] Win keeps rebooting during startup indeed. at least I made BIOS test them. there are two test modes, a slow and a fast one, and I activated the slow one. However, BIOS did not find any curruption. Thus I assumed that the problem sit in the mainboard or so.