Windows XP - boot issue?

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hi guys,

bit stumped by this myself ... my sister's machine running XP fires up as normal, gets to the Windows loading screen, that dissapears, and then it just kills the power to the PC, and it restarts by itself, and then it just cycles throug this

It has no extra devices other than standard, i have removed all components to try and diagnose the problem, all seem ok including ram etc ... i have run a Windows XP repair, with fixboot and fixmbr and still the problem remains ... i managed to slave the disk to my main machine, and it reads the disk, files, and folders all perfectly, almost like theres no problem with it ... all BIOS settings are fine and back to default. I have tried the Winternals CD to see if there are any file system errors, all ok ...

can anyone think what might cause the machine to kill its power and restart just after the XP loading screen dissapears?

Thanks
 
if i check the event log in Winternals it says something about secur32.dll is corrupt and un-readable ... had a google around and not found much on it ... have tried a system restore back to a few months ago to no avail ...
 
I think at this point i would try to install windows on another partiton or hard drive. If the new windows runs ok then you will know its a software problem rather than a hardware problem. You could then decide where you want to go from there. You might be wasting a lot of effort if you don't know if its hardware or software.
 
roflcakes22 said:
hi guys,

bit stumped by this myself ... my sister's machine running XP fires up as normal, gets to the Windows loading screen, that dissapears, and then it just kills the power to the PC, and it restarts by itself, and then it just cycles throug this

It has no extra devices other than standard, i have removed all components to try and diagnose the problem, all seem ok including ram etc ... i have run a Windows XP repair, with fixboot and fixmbr and still the problem remains ... i managed to slave the disk to my main machine, and it reads the disk, files, and folders all perfectly, almost like theres no problem with it ... all BIOS settings are fine and back to default. I have tried the Winternals CD to see if there are any file system errors, all ok ...

can anyone think what might cause the machine to kill its power and restart just after the XP loading screen dissapears?

Thanks
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Kill the power?
Yet you managed to do a a "Windows XP repair, with fixboot and fixmbr"

I would suggest that if you can boot to a CD (you must have done) you ran the wrong repair command.
Adding it as slave will show you nothing...all it's needs is one dodgy file and it will reboot.
Try doing a windows repair again, only run chkdsk
 
wrong command? i was using chkdsk /r as per normal ...

chkdsk /p finds one or more errors, but when i run chkdsk /r it completes, but it doesnt say the usual "found and fixed one or more errors"

think i might slap an old disk in and try a new windows install
 
roflcakes22 said:
wrong command? i was using chkdsk /r as per normal ...

chkdsk /p finds one or more errors, but when i run chkdsk /r it completes, but it doesnt say the usual "found and fixed one or more errors"

think i might slap an old disk in and try a new windows install
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You didn't say you ran chkdsk in your original post was what I meant.
It's the "kills power to PC" that confuses me.

It's not doing it when you go to repair mode I assume else you couldn't run it.
It almost sounds like an electrical fault with the hard disc once it gets past a certain point.
 
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