RE: Win2K looping upon bootup

[Webster]

Title: Win2K looping upon bootup

Ted,   I had this problem one day with my W2K Pro machine.  Kept rebooting and rebooting.  Turned out the SCSI HD wasn’t spinning up fast enough to be detected.  Since W2K started from this drive I would very briefly see an “invalid ntdetect…” msg.  This was after having the computer off for 3 days (it is always left on 24/7).  I had to go into the SCSI BIOS and add 5 seconds to the “spinup” wait time (it was 10 seconds).  Now it works fine.   BTW, the computer is built on an AMD Athlon 1.4GHz, Adaptec 2940UW and the HD is a Seagate 9GB SCSI3 UW drive.   HTH   Carl Webster MCSE, MCT, A+ Cell:    501-281-MCSE (6273) Office: 501-268-8881 -----Original Message----- From: Terry Manolakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]  Subject: Win2K looping upon bootup         I have an issue that may be trivial to some but I'll ask anyway.  Win2K machine on a Dell Precision 410 (Pentium II with 128Mb RAM (ecc) Diamond Pro FireGl video card) does not get past the "starting Windows 2000" (screen with the horizontal bar graph loading).......it just reboots again over and over, looping.  Memory, HDD, CPU or video card failure may be the culprit(s) but the system is in a remote location and these can not be ruled out so easily.  Booting up in Safe mode results in same problem.  Any ideas as to how to isolate the problem remotely?  Thanks in advance! http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm