Consistently Reboots

[jhpackard]

:eek: My windows 2K generic PC (PIII) consistently reboots before the Windows splash screen appears. It reboots immediately after the time allowed for pressing F8 elapses. Also, when I run Panda rescue boot disk scans, the scans terminate with the following message: "Program exited abnormally - received signal 11. You may safely reboot your system." Any suggestions?

[catprotector]

If the system .ini file got damaged I can see why you would get a computer that constantly reboots itself. I would try doing an overinstall of 2000 and see if that works. You might lose a little data though so if you are able to back it up, I would do that before doing an over-install. If that doesn't work you can also do a clean install of 2000.

[jhpackard]

Catprotector,

I reinstalled over the original installation and can now boot successfully. I did not lose any data, although I will need to reinstall two or three programs. Thanks for the heads up! :wave:

Best Regards

[cytechmanny]

Well now heres several fixes for you concerning rebooting problems,

1. Bad Power supply - Replace

2. Loose Processor or even worse going bad - Clean and reset

3. Missing dll's and or corrupted INI

4. Running intivirus programs - must remove

5. update service pack for win2000

6. update BIOS settings

7. motherboard battery going bad