my system (WinXP) reboots and reboots by itself

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>> Win XP auto reboots repeatedly. The rebooting loop started after power
>> failure at power company and takes place every time I switch on the box.
>> Boot sequence gets as far as Post when it reboots. Can't access Windows
>> Advanced Options Menu to disable Auto reboot. Can't see any error
>> messages due to this. Is there a way of editing the registry in order to
>> disable this feature without logging on to windows? Recovery Console
>> perhaps?
>>
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> - Temporarily connect the disk as a slave disk to some other
> WinXP PC, then use regedit.exe to edit the System hive of
> the problem installation.

Slave disk on the same IDE controller or on a different controller? Won't
that crash the PC? Are you sure the PC won't try to load the mucked up OS
on the slave disk? This happened to me once when I installed an old
diskdrive with a dual boot system as a second diskdrive. Not sure whether I
connected it as a slave though. The PC got inoperable and I had to reinstall
Windows.

Please do not start a new thread on an existing subject - see
your main thread.

if the pc was in the process
of reading and writing to
the registry or the disk
when the loss of power
occurred then you might
try to reboot with a windows
cd and log into the recovery
console.

then run the following commands
at the disk prompt>:

chkdsk
fixboot
fixmbr

then exit and reboot
without the cd.

the above should work
barring hardware failure.

there is a possibility
that the subsequent
electrical spike/surge
may have caused a
problem.

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>> "OR" <oeivinr@online.no> wrote in message
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>>> Win XP auto reboots repeatedly. The rebooting loop started after power
>>> failure at power company and takes place every time I switch on the box.
>>> Boot sequence gets as far as Post when it reboots. Can't access Windows
>>> Advanced Options Menu to disable Auto reboot. Can't see any error
>>> messages due to this. Is there a way of editing the registry in order to
>>> disable this feature without logging on to windows? Recovery Console
>>> perhaps?
>>>
>>
>> - Temporarily connect the disk as a slave disk to some other
>> WinXP PC, then use regedit.exe to edit the System hive of
>> the problem installation.
>
> Slave disk on the same IDE controller or on a different controller? Won't
> that crash the PC? Are you sure the PC won't try to load the mucked up OS
> on the slave disk? This happened to me once when I installed an old
> diskdrive with a dual boot system as a second diskdrive. Not sure whether I
> connected it as a slave though. The PC got inoperable and I had to reinstall
> Windows.
>
>
>