help!!! mad start up/ restart loop i cant get out of

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Are you in Safe mode, or regular mode?
Try using your disk to do a Repair Install of XP.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


"nickyj" <nickyj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> my computer decided to restart itself last week and now it is almost
> impossible to start up apart from the odd occasion such as now. i keep
> getting a screen telling me windows xp home cant start properly and do i
> want to go to the last known good configuration, start in safe mode etc.
most
> times it
> shuts down again before i get chance to press a key and gets into a loop
of
> continually trying to restart. i have virus scaned and nothing has shown
up,
> the only changes i made before this started happening was upgrading media
> player
> to version 10. have tried system restore and rolling back media player but
> to no avail. the last few times i have managed to start up the following
> startservice messages have appeared: "the service data base is locked" and
> "cant start kernel mode driver service" whats going on? no idea what im
> doing really, idiot proof help please!
>
>