start up problem

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I just encountered this exact problem also. XP has been loaded for some
time, but since it is a little used compter, I brought it up tonight and
updated XP and now I am having the same problem. On boot it gets to the
point that the next thing should be the log in screen, but always reboots.
Any ideas, short of a format an XP reinstall?


"iradil" wrote:

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> iradil Wrote:
> > I have WinXP SP2 installed and about 2wks ago I installed the updates
> > from the windows update site. upon restart however, XP gets to the
> > loading XP splash screen and just at the point you would expect the
> > welcome screen w/ login info, the system restarts and repeats the boot
> > process. It is hung in this loop and loading in safe mode or any on
> > those F8 options don't seem to help.
> > Any ideas on how I should fix this; reinstalling is a very last
> > resort.
> >
> > thanks much
>
> Here is the error message from my blue screen. "*-Windows logon process
> system process terminated unexpectedly with status 0x0000... system was
> shutdown"-.*
>
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> iradil
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