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Re: Reboot... reboot... reboot - kick machine to death...

 
 
Jaime
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      01-30-2006
Was this system working once and then started having trouble or is this a
fairly new install?

If it was working, have you ruled out any hardware problems? Swapped video
cards, mem, etc?
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James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"dkintheuk" <> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I've got a mesh shuttle based media center and have an odd problem that
> i wondered if anyone else had seen.
>
> I had a non-specific crash of the system and it would boot up with
> registry errors and then fail. I have nothing sacred on the PC so did a
> full wipe and restore from the original discs supplied with the PC.
>
> All goes well until it tries to complete the install by rebooting into
> windows; it just reboots before the Windows load screen comes up.
>
> It will repeat this forever and no other error messages come up. I've
> tried to boot in safe mode and all that happens is that it gets to
> MUP.SYS and then reboots. I don't know if this has anything to do with
> that driver or the next one that would have been listed if all went
> well.
>
> Totally wipe of disc has been done multiple times. Even tried to
> install XP Pro and then use the OEM dics of Media Center as an update
> disc but that failed as well - although XP Pro loaded and booted up
> fine...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob.
>



 
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