XP KEEPS REBOOTING

[iceman600]

I HAVE XP WITH SP2 and after i installed a program for palm pilot it hanged. i restarted it and started to reboot upto the windows bootscreen then it will reboot again. the process reapeats over and over. i tryed taking the ram out and back again notthing happend. try to run memtest, ram ok...
try running repair console and copied a new kernel32... still the same.
im running out of options here... can someone help me.. thanks again...

and by the way... going to safe mode or anything that is in the f8 otion doesnt work either. still reboots ip to windows bootscreen...

[hercules71185]

can you get into safe mode? Shut the power off when its on the splash screen. When in there disable restore point then restart you computer back into safe mode again. Run an anti virus. It might work. If not then I'll let you know I had the same problem mine was a virus

[dicecca112]

can you get into safe mode? Shut the power off when its on the splash screen. When in there disable restore point then restart you computer back into safe mode again. Run an anti virus. It might work. If not then I'll let you know I had the same problem mine was a virus

Um no. That's not how you get into safemode. Hit F8 when right before boot to get to the splash.

To get into the Windows 2000 / XP Safe mode, as the computer is booting press and hold your "F8 Key" which should bring up the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" as shown below. Use your arrow keys to move to "Safe Mode" and press your Enter key.

Note: With some computers if you press and hold a key as the computer is booting you will get a stuck key message. If this occurs, instead of pressing and holding the "F8 key", tap the "F8 key" continuously until you get the startup menu.

[iceman600]

i cant go into safe mode... the thing reboots again when i choose the safe mode... dnt kno what to do?

in the bios i found the hardware monitor and there is a +12voltage and -12voltage....
the +12 voltage is running 11.6 voltage while the -12 is running at -12voltage.
is that ok? or the problem here is my power supply?

[iceman600]

dammit i have an error that says driver_irql_not_less_or_equal
then at the bottom there is a .sys named srosa!
i googled it and its a virus... it makes a code in the registry it says.
how can i remove this f***in virus if i cant go into windows even in safe mode? someone help pls

[martini161]

it might not be a virus. try running memtest

[hercules71185]

the one that said its not how you get into it. I know you press f8. But, when I had that problem I was completely unable to do that. The only way I was able to get into it was shutting down during the splash screen. and it gave me the options to get in it. As I said before I didn't know about the restore point thing when you are scanning for viruses. So I don't know if it was related. My pc is fine over a year later after I encountered a problem almost the same as that. So I got lucky and had no problem with my laptop hardware.

[stev]

Here's a neat cheat to get to the NTFS C: drive to delete that nasty file of srosa. Boot from a Win98SE disk and use the old dos commands to delete the sroas bug. Then reboot the machine into XP.

Also, the "driver_irql_not_less_or_equal" is usually a memory error. Sometimes memory that is OC'ed higher than it's rated for will bomb out with a higher speed frequency or voltage. You can either replace the memory, test the current memory, reset the memory timings, lower the memory votage or change the clock frequency to the memory.

[bubba]

I have also had luck when booting to the command line safe mode when I couldn't get normal safe mode to boot. It just starts the DOS shell, work your way around the old DOS way to your AntiVi program and kick start it from DOS.

You can also hand start explorer this way as well.

[bigstangs]

mine is doing the same thing i cant get in safe mode can any one help me with this

[kenc51]

Have you tried the "Last Known Good Config option?

Press F8 at startup and thenn select "Last Known Good Config

[hercules71185]

another thing if you did what I think you did. I won't say but, just try to go into your bios and set your computer date back to a day when it was working and if it loads you did what I did a while back lol

[mebens]

If it was me, I'd take the drive out and put it in another working computer as a slave and fix the problem that way. That way you can boot up in a working os and run your virusscan tool or do whatever you need to do to fix it. But if yo udon't have an extra comp sitting around, this doesn't work so well...just a thought

[bigstangs]

my computer would not read my hard drive is there another way i can hook it up to my compter or hard drive

[bigstangs]

i tried Last Known Good Config option and everything else but nothing works