Blue Screen Of Death

[Padso]

My mates XP machine keeps rebooting but i cant get it to stop long enough to see what the message on the BSOD is.

How do i disable auto restart when i cannot access Windows XP in any mode?

 

[Griff]

At what stage does it reboot?

 

[The Hoff]

Guessing it's probably something to do with a corrupted .sys file, but thats a very long shot unless of course you give us more details.

Useful details would be system spec, at what point it crashes (during boot-up? after windows 'loads?'? during gameplay/intensive applications?

All helps

As a suggestion try booting into safe mode, you can do this via tapping F8 on boot-up, and select safe-mode from the menu. This will help because if its still crashing you can rule out any sort of driver corruption/hardware conflict and points to something within the OS, or possibly a virus.

 

[rap-]

My mates XP machine keeps rebooting but i cant get it to stop long enough to see what the message on the BSOD is.

How do i disable auto restart when i cannot access Windows XP in any mode?

mate odd me had the same today so off i went google and came up with this

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317277

give it ago

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Check the computer doesn't have caps like the link on the motherboard as I've come across loads of these and they just reboot as well.

 

[Padso]

Firstly i cannot get into Windows at all to turn off auto reboot.

When i run safe mode it gets to loading the AGPSYS file then as it begins to start the windows app it just BSOD's and reboots.

If i run in normal start up it get past the white bar to the WINDOWS XP icon then just reboots again.

Any ideas to save me having to reinstall XP and loosing all his work?

 

[Saner]

some versions of XP have the option to turn off the auto reboot in the F8 menu on startup. Whilst the computer is starting up, just keep pressing F8, between the POST and Windows Startup it should give you that menu.

 

[Padso]

some versions of XP have the option to turn off the auto reboot in the F8 menu on startup. Whilst the computer is starting up, just keep pressing F8, between the POST and Windows Startup it should give you that menu.

Cheers mate your a saviour thats what i was looking for.

Right the message is UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

Is this the fixboot command or the CHKDSK /R?