Restarting in endless loop.

[Yuna_Firerose]

Very, very similar to this thread with a key difference: no update caused the problem. The last major thing done to it was a week ago - well, eight days to be exact, but whatev - when we had to re-enable our internet connection. (storms did something to the ethernet cord; cableguy came in and connected the modem to comp via usb; works fine now. Or, at least it did until today.)

 

Our computer will start up, get to the Windows XP loading screen, then a blip of a blue screen with text (I'm assuming with errors) and... restart itself. Tried booting up in Safe Mode, 'Last Configuration That Worked', Normal mode... nothing worked.

 

I have so much stuff saved - like, for instance, all of my music videos that I've mae - that, literally, can not be found again. I'm on the computer at school and so I ask: would the non-desctructive recovery help at all? Or, at the very *least*, would it enable us to get into the computer to burn a few CD-Rs? (For saving data and such).

[Black Lushus]

you'll have to get a new harddrive...exact same shit happened to me, EXACTLY what you just described...

[Yuna_Firerose]

What causes this sort of shit to happen? Last night, nothing out of the ordinary occurred.. no viruses, spyware, errors, not a damn thing. This morning.. kablamo, it's all fucked.

 

Would leaving the computer on help or is that asking for more damage? It seems, to me, to be something in the shut down/boot-up sequence that causes all to go awry.

 

But... in any event, the non-destructive restore won't do shit?

[Dimensions]

I suggest you get another hardrive and a copy of ERD Commander and copy everything to that HD before things get worse.

[AlaskanHero]

Something like this happened to me a little while ago, though I got to my desktop where it would load for a little while before restarting (I stupidly took down my firewall for a few moments beforehand. Never again....). Anyways, after doing the non-destructive restore thing in Setup, everything went back to normal and all my shit was just fine.

 

Try that and if it works, then get the new hard drive and back up your irreplacable stuff.

[Guest BrokenWings]

I'm actually going through the exact same thing right now...in the process of attempting to save my mp3's and pictures I've taken over the years, but it's not looking good.

 

I have absolutely no idea what caused it, either.

[Cran Da Maniac]

Had a problem like this happen at work. Tried a Hard Drive and it didn't work, a Power Supply didn't work either. In the end it turned out to be the Memory Stick.

[Black Lushus]

What I was told was that the chat program I had (yahoo) had virus scans that cancelled out the good virus scans my computer already had, thus leaving it practically wide open for anyone to fuck with at anytime...computer guy told me to never install yahoo again...but who knows with these other cases...