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Title: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: Getback on January 23, 2011, 11:25:12 AM

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?

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: falcon23 on January 23, 2011, 11:26:30 AM

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

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: Chalenge on January 23, 2011, 11:31:12 AM

Stick your Windows disk in and do a Startup Recovery.

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: Getback on January 23, 2011, 11:50:08 AM

Quote from: falcon23 on January 23, 2011, 11:26:30 AM

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

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

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: Getback on January 23, 2011, 11:50:45 AM

Quote from: Chalenge on January 23, 2011, 11:31:12 AM

Stick your Windows disk in and do a Startup Recovery.

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

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: AAJagerX on January 23, 2011, 10:43:10 PM

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)?

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 24, 2011, 06:07:58 AM

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

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: Getback on February 10, 2011, 04:41:37 AM

Quote from: AAJagerX on January 23, 2011, 10:43:10 PM

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!

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: cattb on February 10, 2011, 09:20:17 AM

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.

Title: Re: Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Computer is looping
Post by: Getback on February 10, 2011, 12:27:34 PM

Quote from: cattb on February 10, 2011, 09:20:17 AM

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.