XP boots but restarts at login

RobThePyro · Post by **RobThePyro** » 22 Jan 2008, 15:33

Hi guys

Fixing a PC for a friend of mine, whats happend is: XP has started booting to the welcome screen but as soon as you click any user it reboots(after entering password) I can however get in under safe mode but nither system restore or Chkdsk /R has been able to solve the problem.

i dissabled auto restart and i get a BSOD when trying to login with some generic error code like 0x0000008E or something.... i also ran memtest86 and everything was fine...

system is not overclocked and windows reinstall is an absolute LAST RESORT!

any ideas? Laughing
Thanks guys!
Rob~!

Post by **Monty** » 22 Jan 2008, 15:42

uh... Reinstall is what i'd recomend. Have you googled the error code you got?

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 22 Jan 2008, 15:47

>>dupe<< - someone help the guy before he works his way through the list!

99.999% of the time, this is a hardware issue, be it a duff driver, physical fault or BIOS support issue. I'v had this with bad ram, bad IDE system, bad hdd...

was anything changed recently?

po10cy · Post by **po10cy** » 22 Jan 2008, 16:10

if nothing works just do a REPAIR install....all your data and settings and installed files will all be there still like it was the last time windows worked.

HuDiNi · Post by **HuDiNi** » 22 Jan 2008, 17:03

Looks like it could be a driver. Installed anything recently? Go in under safe mode and uninstall it. I'd start with the graphics. Or as previously said repair install.

Post by **Cameron_Losco** » 22 Jan 2008, 17:57

The very first thing that I would do in your situation is disable all startup items, if the machine starts fine then it's probably one of them that's causing this issue.

Start in safe mode and click Start - Run. Type msconfig and click OK. Select Selective Startup and remove the tick next to Load Startup Items. Reboot and try to get into Windows.

Edit:

If it does start fine then enable each item or a few and reboot until you find the culprit.