winnie 3200
asus a8n-sli
x1800xt
audigy 2 zs
nec dvd-rw
asus 400W psu
200gb maxtor
320gb WD
250gb maxtor
Anyway heres the situation:
yesterday was playing counterstrike, everything was fine, until suddenly it all freezes up. i have to manually switch off the pc, when i restart it, before it gets to the windows boot screen it just restarts itself - and keeps doing that, trying to boot in safe mode does same thing
anyway i had to go out for the day, i come back in the evening, and switch on. no restart this time, up comes an error message: cant boot cos windows\system32\config\system is missing or corrupt
this keeps coming up every time i restart the pc. i put in the XP PRO CD, go to recovery console, try chkdsk /p and then chkdsk /r and it says found repaired 1 or more errors.....but same error keeps coming up
so i go for a re-install. my 200gb is my windows hd and it has 2 100GB partitions. i try to format the windows partition first before installing windows again - but it fails at formatting it. i successfully install windows on the other partition. so last nite everything is fine, install a few drivers here and there, i restart the pc a few times and no error messages and boots into windows fine
now i wake up and its back to the continous restarting
is there a setting in the bios so it doesnt restart before there is an error on boot? cos im sure yesterday in some boot menu i disable the auto restart thing, cant seem to get the option now, so then i could see what the error msg will be, if its the same thing
any other ideas?
thanks
EDIT//
Ok i managed to disable the auto restart thing using some 'advanced boot menu' now just get a BSOD saying a problem has been detected etc etc....
asus a8n-sli
x1800xt
audigy 2 zs
nec dvd-rw
asus 400W psu
200gb maxtor
320gb WD
250gb maxtor
Anyway heres the situation:
yesterday was playing counterstrike, everything was fine, until suddenly it all freezes up. i have to manually switch off the pc, when i restart it, before it gets to the windows boot screen it just restarts itself - and keeps doing that, trying to boot in safe mode does same thing
anyway i had to go out for the day, i come back in the evening, and switch on. no restart this time, up comes an error message: cant boot cos windows\system32\config\system is missing or corrupt
this keeps coming up every time i restart the pc. i put in the XP PRO CD, go to recovery console, try chkdsk /p and then chkdsk /r and it says found repaired 1 or more errors.....but same error keeps coming up
so i go for a re-install. my 200gb is my windows hd and it has 2 100GB partitions. i try to format the windows partition first before installing windows again - but it fails at formatting it. i successfully install windows on the other partition. so last nite everything is fine, install a few drivers here and there, i restart the pc a few times and no error messages and boots into windows fine
now i wake up and its back to the continous restarting
is there a setting in the bios so it doesnt restart before there is an error on boot? cos im sure yesterday in some boot menu i disable the auto restart thing, cant seem to get the option now, so then i could see what the error msg will be, if its the same thing
any other ideas?
thanks
EDIT//
Ok i managed to disable the auto restart thing using some 'advanced boot menu' now just get a BSOD saying a problem has been detected etc etc....
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