Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping

[Getback]

It was running beautiful. I turned it off last night and today nada. It seems to loop. I started it in safe mode with networking and only safe mode showed. I wonder if it's the video card. Normal mode causes it to loop to restart. Any ideas?

[falcon23]

reset cmos if you havedone any overclocking recently,or in the past..BTW I just got my 8400 to 4.05  and stable.. 

[Chalenge]

Stick your Windows disk in and do a Startup Recovery.

[Getback]

reset cmos if you havedone any overclocking recently,or in the past..BTW I just got my 8400 to 4.05  and stable.. 

Wow! No it's not overclocked at all. The other comp is but I'm using for other reasons and it runs great.

[Getback]

Stick your Windows disk in and do a Startup Recovery.

That is the next thing I'm going to try.

[AAJagerX]

Ya may have a bad RAM stick.  Fixed a friend's comp that was doing the same thing yesterday.  

EDIT:  If ya have multiple RAM sticks, pull the one closest to the processor and replace it with one from the 2nd DIMM slot.  I doubt you'd lose two at the same time. 

Also, when ya start the machine, how many beeps do you hear (P.O.S.T code)?

[DREDIOCK]

Looping at startup?

I know this is probobly going to sound wierd but are you using a Saitek keyboard?
Same thing happened to me last year and for some reason after I ended up reformatting it turned out that something about that keyboard was causing it. Soon as I switched out keyboards. The problem stopped. Funny thing is. The keyboard works fine on every other machine I've used it on. but as soon as I hook it up to this one It just goes in an endless loop on reboot.

Messed up, cause I really like that keyboard

[Getback]

Ya may have a bad RAM stick.  Fixed a friend's comp that was doing the same thing yesterday.  

EDIT:  If ya have multiple RAM sticks, pull the one closest to the processor and replace it with one from the 2nd DIMM slot.  I doubt you'd lose two at the same time. 

Also, when ya start the machine, how many beeps do you hear (P.O.S.T code)?

That seems to have been the problem. I did exactly what you said. It did a chkdsk and then booted. It's running right now. Time will tell though. Thanks!

[cattb]

You could also use memtest. Download the version you need and put on cd. Insert CD and boot from cd and run test. Very handy troubleshooting tool for RAM.

[Getback]

You could also use memtest. Download the version you need and put on cd. Insert CD and boot from cd and run test. Very handy troubleshooting tool for RAM.

Thanks, I forgot about that tool.