XP Home install in Reboot loop

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XP Home install in Reboot loop
I am getting to 3/4 of "Finishing Installation" when the machine keeps
rebooting.

History
The machine started to sometimes randomly, perhaps once a day, reboot with a
command i.e. clicking on an icon or opening a file.
I then noticed that the picture had reduced in size and could not be reset
to fill the screen. (The Intel option tab was now missing from
>Properties>Settings> Advanced)
I found that Graphics Driver (Intel 82845) was highlighted (!) in System
Hardware.
".Unable to initialize device".
I Uninstalled then let it reinstall the driver. - No change - still (!) in
System Hardware.
Got updated driver (win2k_xp14103) - same result.

I then discovered "System restore" was un-ticked!

I tried "Repair" from Windows XP CD.
It kept rebooting during the process and never finished - I then found I was
unable to start windows at all.
I then tried a complete reinstallation of XP.
It kept rebooting during the process but after many tries I got it to about
¾ of the last process "Finishing Installation" when the machine again
reboots and I can't get beyond this point no matter how many times I try. At
each restart it then gets as far as the memory check then reboots and cycles
through that continually. I have to manually switch off and re-power up to
get beyond that but it then returns to the Install Menu at the 39 minutes to
go point of the install.

The machine was up to date with XP updates and AVG.


(Tranquil T2 Media PC with:
Pentium M 1.73 /533
1GB ram
Samsung Spinpoint 250GB HDD
PCI - ATI 9250/128 DVI VGA SVideo
54MB WiFi )

Slatts
 
I would guess it was broken hardware. I would try a 'bare bones' install
with only the basic hardware.

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"Sla#s" <phil@KNOTslatts.net> wrote in message
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> XP Home install in Reboot loop
> I am getting to 3/4 of "Finishing Installation" when the machine keeps
> rebooting.
>
> History
> The machine started to sometimes randomly, perhaps once a day, reboot with
> a command i.e. clicking on an icon or opening a file.
> I then noticed that the picture had reduced in size and could not be reset
> to fill the screen. (The Intel option tab was now missing from
> >Properties>Settings> Advanced)
> I found that Graphics Driver (Intel 82845) was highlighted (!) in System
> Hardware.
> ".Unable to initialize device".
> I Uninstalled then let it reinstall the driver. - No change - still (!) in
> System Hardware.
> Got updated driver (win2k_xp14103) - same result.
>
> I then discovered "System restore" was un-ticked!
>
> I tried "Repair" from Windows XP CD.
> It kept rebooting during the process and never finished - I then found I
> was unable to start windows at all.
> I then tried a complete reinstallation of XP.
> It kept rebooting during the process but after many tries I got it to
> about ¾ of the last process "Finishing Installation" when the machine
> again reboots and I can't get beyond this point no matter how many times I
> try. At each restart it then gets as far as the memory check then reboots
> and cycles through that continually. I have to manually switch off and
> re-power up to get beyond that but it then returns to the Install Menu at
> the 39 minutes to go point of the install.
>
> The machine was up to date with XP updates and AVG.
>
>
> (Tranquil T2 Media PC with:
> Pentium M 1.73 /533
> 1GB ram
> Samsung Spinpoint 250GB HDD
> PCI - ATI 9250/128 DVI VGA SVideo
> 54MB WiFi )
>
> Slatts
 
Does it complete the memory check? Maybe you should run a memory test
and make sure that the RAM is not defective.

John

Sla#s wrote:

> XP Home install in Reboot loop
> I am getting to 3/4 of "Finishing Installation" when the machine keeps
> rebooting.
>
> History
> The machine started to sometimes randomly, perhaps once a day, reboot
> with a command i.e. clicking on an icon or opening a file.
> I then noticed that the picture had reduced in size and could not be
> reset to fill the screen. (The Intel option tab was now missing from
> >Properties>Settings> Advanced)
> I found that Graphics Driver (Intel 82845) was highlighted (!) in System
> Hardware.
> ".Unable to initialize device".
> I Uninstalled then let it reinstall the driver. - No change - still (!)
> in System Hardware.
> Got updated driver (win2k_xp14103) - same result.
>
> I then discovered "System restore" was un-ticked!
>
> I tried "Repair" from Windows XP CD.
> It kept rebooting during the process and never finished - I then found I
> was unable to start windows at all.
> I then tried a complete reinstallation of XP.
> It kept rebooting during the process but after many tries I got it to
> about ¾ of the last process "Finishing Installation" when the machine
> again reboots and I can't get beyond this point no matter how many times
> I try. At each restart it then gets as far as the memory check then
> reboots and cycles through that continually. I have to manually switch
> off and re-power up to get beyond that but it then returns to the
> Install Menu at the 39 minutes to go point of the install.
>
> The machine was up to date with XP updates and AVG.
>
>
> (Tranquil T2 Media PC with:
> Pentium M 1.73 /533
> 1GB ram
> Samsung Spinpoint 250GB HDD
> PCI - ATI 9250/128 DVI VGA SVideo
> 54MB WiFi )
>
> Slatts
 
Mark L. Ferguson wrote:
> I would guess it was broken hardware. I would try a 'bare bones'
> install with only the basic hardware.

Do you mean pull out all the cards?
(Exept the video one as I'd see nothing)

Slatts
 
John John wrote:
> Does it complete the memory check? Maybe you should run a memory test
> and make sure that the RAM is not defective.

It completes it only if switched off then re-powered up.
If left to it's own devices it just keep getting to memory check and
rebooting.

Slatts
 
Shooting a corpse only wastes a bullet. :/

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"Sla#s" <phil@KNOTslatts.net> wrote in message
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> Mark L. Ferguson wrote:
>> I would guess it was broken hardware. I would try a 'bare bones'
>> install with only the basic hardware.
>
> Do you mean pull out all the cards?
> (Exept the video one as I'd see nothing)
>
> Slatts
 
Sla#s wrote:

> John John wrote:
>
>> Does it complete the memory check? Maybe you should run a memory test
>> and make sure that the RAM is not defective.
>
>
> It completes it only if switched off then re-powered up.
> If left to it's own devices it just keep getting to memory check and
> rebooting.

Hmmm. I would start with a RAM test to make sure that the RAM isn't
defective.

John
 
Re: XP Home install... End

I gave up in the end - reformated and did a clean install.

Slatts
 
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