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Wolluf, Thanks for the ideas...the Win ME was the original operating system on this computer and he has (or had)all his programs and files attached to it. He really needs access back to Win ME. The Win 2K was installed recently and I didn't check to see if they were on separate partitions but...

My friend has a dual boot Sony Vaio (sp) system with Win ME and Win 2000. The Win ME was on it first. He loaded Win2000. Something apparently happened where he could no longer boot in ME...Win2000 works fine. He tried to reload Win ME over itself and it only goes so far before it stops. The...

John, I finally found out the hard drive had a boot record problem. When i downloaded the hard drive manufacturer's software for troubleshooting, I used it to restore the boot record. The software that was already on it then worked. I highly suggest to you to get the software and restore the...

I am in the same boat as mainegeek....i can remeber IBM PC, XT and 286 boards with the memory soldered or socketed into the motherboard. Even some 386's and cheap 486's were that way. Other board started coming out that had cache memory but unless you added a simm (or the older sipp) or the...

Everyone, Virus Scan will be done. My friend will have to update her virus software first though. Damaging a boot record is not to awful common in the years I've been dabbling in computers. I'm sure it happens much more from viruses. Thanks Again, oldbear

Ok Everyone, Here's the final roundup. I put the original hard drive back into the Gateway and it booted properly. All problems have disappeared including the memory problems. I understand the boot being damaged and the rolling or continuos booting it caused on the 4 different computers I...

mainegeek, don't talk like that...I need some hope.. oldbear

Xomcat, Well, it appears the hard drive's boot record was toast. We booted with a Win XP CD on another computer. We used the cd's repair section to rebuild the hard drive's boot record. When we rebooted, the computer no longer "rolled" (Kept rebooting again and again). We used...

Hello Everyone, Partial Success!!! Was able to put the harddrive on a different computer and a different Win XP cd and able to boot with the CD. Repaired the boot record in the hard drive and it booted properly. This has ended the continuous booting problem I believe. Now to go home and see...

wolluf, I suspected a boot virus at first but have since changed my mind. I get the memory error message with the original memory stick in the Gateway and with the one from my computer in the Gateway. I have suspected something was wrong with my own stick for a while now...numerous reasons...

Bigbadben, I've secured another Win XP Disk to try out. I'm getting another stick of memory....didn't know any RAM resided on the Microstar MS-6312 motherboard. Bios Virus? How? No one was flashing the bios. The users were playing games and getting on the internet. If I get the same...

disconnected the hard drive and ran just the CD with Windows XP. Same error message about the low memory. Virus eliminated....It appears Tkoch may be right. I'll get another stick to use. The one in my other computer gives the same error message. oldbear

Mainegeek, No, used a different keyboard. But, I did have a strange thing happen. I connected the hard drive on a different platform and it continuously rebooted on it. I didn't go into the bios to turn everything off to see if I was getting the same error message but was surprised to see...

Mainegeek, Ihave no idea, I can't get to Goback or anything else. i'm hoping the Win XP Cd i'm getting today will let me boot to look at the file structure. oldbear

Mainegeek, Xomcat, Wolluf, The rebooting would follow immediately after the Gateway screen disappeared...in other words immediately upon hitting the hard drive to begin booting. There were no Windows XP screens ever. It doesn't get that far. I turned off several things in the bios ...now it...

wolluf, That search you gave me doesn't appear to work...must be something I'm not doing right. oldbear

Hi Everyone, I posted a continuous booting problem on 25 Sep. I have more information and I thought it best to open a new thread. This is in a Gateway FLEXATXSTC BRO 300S. It's got a 1 GHz Celeron and a Maxtor D540x-4K 20Gig harddrive. The owner (friend) was loading games the day before the...

troyu, I tried going into Tools>Services like you suggest but the problem exists there too. The .pst file exists but it does not show up under that Tools>Services menu. The file is 32K...just a basic start size. but it is not registered in the file folders like all the other .pst files. I...

braddds, I have seen blaster on my brother-in-law's work computer. On it, rebooting occurred after going into windows although the time between reboots varied greatly. This time, the computer is showing the bios Gateway Computer screen right before it begins the booting process and then goes...

in Outlook, when creating a new personal file folder to archive messages, a friend of mine forgot to label the name in the little box that pops up when defining the new .pst file. So, the folder in not there in outlook's file folders although it resides with all the other file folders with...