Restarting when booting

[PennyB]

I originally posted this to the windows 2000 group, so sorry if you read this before:


My 2000 machine rebooted several times before eventually loading yesterday morning. Each time before the actual windows started, before the 'verifying the DMI Pool Data ' part.

I gave the disk a scan and a chkdsk and it rebooted fine, thankfully. Would it be the mbr or hardware that's causing it?

More info:

Now I've watched it again this morning, it reboots after every stage of the boot, ie: deteccting drives, pool data, the bar going across, and the windows blue line. It's likeit 'forgets' how to load when it's first turned on - normal restarts work fine.

*scratches head*


Penny

 

[bcastner]

Check the Event Logs for possible details.

 

[PennyB]

I already did that, nothing was there - probably because it never got as far as windows itself.

Penny

 

[franklin97355]

Check the hardware, power supply, memory.

 

[sixstrings4]

Could be a heat issue. Open your pc up and blow out any dust. Also confirm that your heatsink is properly attached to the cpu.

 

[paparazi]

PennyB
Check for bad capacitors (this is very familiar behaviour for a motherboard with leaking caps (see below for description)

http://www.badcaps.com

A bad stick of memory perhaps.
A failing power supply
A conflicting driver (have you installed updated or changed any drivers recently)
Martin


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