re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:32 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Pent (22 messages posted) The thing is... I would say almost 85% of the rebooting happens before it even gets into windows... On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:04 am, Tom Sargent wrote: >By default XP is set to reboot automatically when you get a system failure. You need >to turn this feature off to find out what is going wrong to cause the continuous >rebooting. > >Load XP (running the bus at at a lower speed if necessary) and uncheck "auto restart" >under Startup and Recovery >"Auto restart" is specifically located in Control Panel -> Performance & Maint -> >System -> System Properties -> Startup & Recovery. > >Now set the BIOS to the correct speed, reboot, and see if you get a meaningful error >message when the system crashes... > > Written in response to: re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (Tom Sargent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:04 am) Responses to this message: re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (Tom Sargent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 at 4:54 am) All messages in this thread [show all] PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (Pent: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 10:31 am) re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (chester: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 10:44 am) re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (triplate: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 11:14 am) re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (Tom Sargent: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 11:04 am) re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (Pent: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 11:32 am) re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (Tom Sargent: Sun, Feb 15, 2004, 4:54 am) re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (chester: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 11:06 am) re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (Howard: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 12:20 pm) re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard. (Flandry Mossback: Sat, Feb 14, 2004, 10:19 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum