Continuous reeboot

[cmsix]

I've just run across the second machine in a week that is stuck in a reboot
loop. Even when trying safemode the machine reboots before the login screen.

I gave up and reinstalled the first time, but I have a little more time
available with this machine and I'm wondering if any of you have any tips. I
know that stopping the "Automatically reboot" feature might help, but I
don't know any way to change the setting when I can't get it booted in any
mode at all.

Does anyone know which registry entry controls this. I can put the drive in
another machine and try to change the setting that way if I knew what it
was.

Any other hints or tips would be appreciated.

By the way. I can get a boot log but it is a pita to put the drive in the
offending machine, choose bootlog during the reeboot, and then take it out
and put it back into another machine to read the boot log.

cmsix

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[Dustin Cook]

"cmsix" <cmsix@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:GT4Gh.2379$tv6.696@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net :

> I've just run across the second machine in a week that is stuck in a
> reboot loop. Even when trying safemode the machine reboots before the
> login screen.

you might wanna give a bartPE disc a try, boot the machine from it and run
chkdsk. Or put the drive in another PC and run it. After doing this, if the
issue isn't resolved, see if the machine has old restore points,
preferrably from a day when it was running. You can copy the backup
registry over, and this may correct your issue.

> By the way. I can get a boot log but it is a pita to put the drive in
> the offending machine, choose bootlog during the reeboot, and then
> take it out and put it back into another machine to read the boot log.

If your going to go thru all that trouble, try what I suggested above...

Post back your results.


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[Gaz]

Dustin Cook wrote:
> "cmsix" <cmsix@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:GT4Gh.2379$tv6.696@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net :
>
>> I've just run across the second machine in a week that is stuck in a
>> reboot loop. Even when trying safemode the machine reboots before the
>> login screen.
>
> you might wanna give a bartPE disc a try, boot the machine from it and run
> chkdsk. Or put the drive in another PC and run it. After doing this, if
> the
> issue isn't resolved, see if the machine has old restore points,
> preferrably from a day when it was running. You can copy the backup
> registry over, and this may correct your issue.
>

I find also that chkdsk fixes about 85% of reboot problems...

Gaz

[cmsix]

"cmsix" <cmsix@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:GT4Gh.2379$tv6.696@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net ...
> I've just run across the second machine in a week that is stuck in a
> reboot loop. Even when trying safemode the machine reboots before the
> login screen.
>
> I gave up and reinstalled the first time, but I have a little more time
> available with this machine and I'm wondering if any of you have any tips.
> I know that stopping the "Automatically reboot" feature might help, but I
> don't know any way to change the setting when I can't get it booted in any
> mode at all.
>
> Does anyone know which registry entry controls this. I can put the drive
> in another machine and try to change the setting that way if I knew what
> it was.
>
> Any other hints or tips would be appreciated.
>
> By the way. I can get a boot log but it is a pita to put the drive in the
> offending machine, choose bootlog during the reeboot, and then take it out
> and put it back into another machine to read the boot log.

Just shows how dumb I am. I posted here and then forgot that I did. I just
came back today and found the responses. Thanks for all that tried to help.

BTW. I ran cksdsk on it with the drive in another machine and it fixed it.
Darned if I didn't get another one also and chkdsk fixed that one too. It is
a little odd to get three in the same week with similar problems.
Unfortunately, the 2000 machine didn't respond to chkdsk and had to get a
reinstall. That one was for a dentist though, and previous softdent problems
had taught him to keep his data backups current, so he didn't lose anything
but time.

cmsix

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