my system (WinXP) reboots and reboots by itself

OR

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>> Win XP auto reboots repeatedly. The rebooting loop started after power
>> failure at power company and takes place every time I switch on the box.
>> Boot sequence gets as far as Post when it reboots. Can't access Windows
>> Advanced Options Menu to disable Auto reboot. Can't see any error
>> messages due to this. Is there a way of editing the registry in order to
>> disable this feature without logging on to windows? Recovery Console
>> perhaps?
>>
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> - Temporarily connect the disk as a slave disk to some other
> WinXP PC, then use regedit.exe to edit the System hive of
> the problem installation.

Slave disk on the same IDE controller or on a different controller? Won't
that crash the PC? Are you sure the PC won't try to load the mucked up OS
on the slave disk? This happened to me once when I installed an old
diskdrive with a dual boot system as a second diskdrive. Not sure whether I
connected it as a slave though. The PC got inoperable and I had to reinstall
Windows.

Pegasus \(MVP\)

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db.·.. >

if the pc was in the process
of reading and writing to
the registry or the disk
when the loss of power
occurred then you might
try to reboot with a windows
cd and log into the recovery
console.

then run the following commands
at the disk prompt>:

chkdsk
fixboot
fixmbr

then exit and reboot
without the cd.

the above should work
barring hardware failure.

there is a possibility
that the subsequent
electrical spike/surge
may have caused a
problem.

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>>> Win XP auto reboots repeatedly. The rebooting loop started after power
>>> failure at power company and takes place every time I switch on the box.
>>> Boot sequence gets as far as Post when it reboots. Can't access Windows
>>> Advanced Options Menu to disable Auto reboot. Can't see any error
>>> messages due to this. Is there a way of editing the registry in order to
>>> disable this feature without logging on to windows? Recovery Console
>>> perhaps?
>>>
>>
>> - Temporarily connect the disk as a slave disk to some other
>> WinXP PC, then use regedit.exe to edit the System hive of
>> the problem installation.
>
> Slave disk on the same IDE controller or on a different controller? Won't
> that crash the PC? Are you sure the PC won't try to load the mucked up OS
> on the slave disk? This happened to me once when I installed an old
> diskdrive with a dual boot system as a second diskdrive. Not sure whether I
> connected it as a slave though. The PC got inoperable and I had to reinstall
> Windows.
>
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