I'm having a problem with XP that alot of others seem to be having. XP continues to restart over and over without ever actually booting up. I've searched on google, and other forums finding similar and the exact problem I have, but no solutions. Please bear with me as I explain what exactly is happening.
My set up consist of:
ASUS A7N266 VM Motheboard
Athlon XP 1700
512 mb pc2100 crucial ram
Western Digi 40 gb hd
Win XP
My problem:
I was beginning to install Norton Anti Virus and as the auto-installation screen came up the computer froze then restarted itself. It will continue for a few seconds until it gets to a screen asking me to continue booting in either one of several safe modes, normal mode, or using the last correct settings. No matter which choice I choose, even choosing nothing and allowing it to continue it just restarts itself.
After watching this happen several times I placed the XP CD in and allowed it to boot from there.
After several seconds it gets to the "pci device listing" screen and then saids "boot from atapi cd-rom, no emulation, press any key to boot from cd"
If I dont press anything within seconds it goes to the screen asking me how I would like to boot.. safe, normal, etc... and once again no matter what choice it reboots.
If I do press a key, the first time it proceeds to a blue screen which saids "setup inspecting hardware configuration" and at the bottom it shows it loading various things... then all of a sudden it restarts.
The second time I pressed any key I got a error message.
"file \i386\biosinfo.inf could not be loaded. the error code is 2... cant continue"
The third time I pressed any key it just locks up without changing screens.
Thats when I gave up. Does anyone have any idea of what is wrong and more importantly how I can fix it?
Thank you,
My set up consist of:
ASUS A7N266 VM Motheboard
Athlon XP 1700
512 mb pc2100 crucial ram
Western Digi 40 gb hd
Win XP
My problem:
I was beginning to install Norton Anti Virus and as the auto-installation screen came up the computer froze then restarted itself. It will continue for a few seconds until it gets to a screen asking me to continue booting in either one of several safe modes, normal mode, or using the last correct settings. No matter which choice I choose, even choosing nothing and allowing it to continue it just restarts itself.
After watching this happen several times I placed the XP CD in and allowed it to boot from there.
After several seconds it gets to the "pci device listing" screen and then saids "boot from atapi cd-rom, no emulation, press any key to boot from cd"
If I dont press anything within seconds it goes to the screen asking me how I would like to boot.. safe, normal, etc... and once again no matter what choice it reboots.
If I do press a key, the first time it proceeds to a blue screen which saids "setup inspecting hardware configuration" and at the bottom it shows it loading various things... then all of a sudden it restarts.
The second time I pressed any key I got a error message.
"file \i386\biosinfo.inf could not be loaded. the error code is 2... cant continue"
The third time I pressed any key it just locks up without changing screens.
Thats when I gave up. Does anyone have any idea of what is wrong and more importantly how I can fix it?
Thank you,
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