RE: Win2K looping upon bootup

[Terry Manolakos]

No hardware changes...but how can I confirm software changes?  I can't even ping this node.  I'm on the outside looking at a constant reboot-loop. I'll be disabling the "autoreboot if hardware fails" option...in the BIOS, then see its behaviour....then boot in w/ a cd rom and choose recovery option....what else come to mind? thanks,   Terry -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Burns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win2K looping upon bootup Has anything been added to the computer: software, hardware, etc??  I've seen this with putting pcAnywhere 9.0 on a Win2K system without first updating it to 9.21 before reboot.  Daniel   ----- Original Message ----- From: Konrad Kliewer To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:53 PM Subject: RE: Win2K looping upon bootup I have seen this problem with computers with marginal power supplies.  You might want to check and see if your power supply is going bad. The machine was rebuilt from scratch; no GHOST.  It was working fine for several months up until a day or so ago. -----Original Message----- From: Heavner, Charlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2K looping upon bootup are you trying to build the machine from ghost image? If so, your may controller card issues or the image could have been built on a hard drive that is bigger than the destination drive. those 2 issues caused boot-loops for me when I first started working with ghost. -----Original Message----- From: Terry Manolakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2K looping upon bootup Firstly, my heart goes out to all those families who lost loved ones in that tragic attack.  This e-mail list helped me deal with the emotional torment that I felt from the very first day of the attack.  Reading through 350+ e-mails relating to the attack made me feel very close to the pain/frustration of the citizens of the United States as well as others throughout the rest of the world.        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! Ted M eNGENU!TY Technologies Montreal, Canada Visit us at: http://www.engenuitytech.com http://www.virtualprototypes.ca http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm Konrad Kliewer Staff Engineer Jonathan Amy Facility for Chemical Instrumentation Dept. of Chemistry  Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393 http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm