computer help?

hello watmm

 

i shamefully, yet desperately, am in need of some kind of technical computer assistance

 

to sum it up shortly: i needed to open up windows xp in safe mode...for some reason my computer was having difficulties doing that. so i found out about how you can switch it to open up in safe mode from startup. now, without really imagining anything this twisted, my computer attempts to start up, in safe mode, then fails to do so, and times out (30 second countdown), for the computer to restart, and repeat the process over again, forever. it is stuck in this reboot mind loop, and it cant get out. sounds familiar...

 

so it would be wicked if chaosmachine or joyrex or someone of high computer knowledge in the style of xp home edition would swoop in and save the day, but if someone just knows of an active and informative forum that i may question, that would be great. all help would be great. god is great! praise allah!

it might be the pixelstream that is getting fragmented in the I/O matrix. on the other hand the hertz converter in the southbridge databus could have trouble with the prime factors that are usually run in the safe mode of XP. if you are sure the baudrate is somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 KBPS and distributed in an gaussian fashion then it could be anything from lost sectors to DIP switches being out of synch.

 

or then it could be a dodgy power supply.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm - Might be what you need, sounds like there is something missing to boot into safe mode, I've had similar happen to mine thanks to a virus chomping away at some of the start up files, and it worked for me. It just replaces files that are missing. Just follow the instructions carefully.

what does this countdown screen looks like ? take a photo of it if pos.

reinstall xp.

 

just from your post it could be anything in windows that will fuck up (the registry) or perhaps a hardware issue. most likely it's windows. if you don't want to fool with fixing it and you just want your shit to work for sure, reinstall. it will wipe everything on your HD and give you a clean slate.

 

if it's a hardware issue nothing will work (besides new hardware)

Edited June 18, 2010 by theSun

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thank me later.

  On 6/18/2010 at 11:15 AM, azatoth said:

it might be the pixelstream that is getting fragmented in the I/O matrix. on the other hand the hertz converter in the southbridge databus could have trouble with the prime factors that are usually run in the safe mode of XP. if you are sure the baudrate is somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 KBPS and distributed in an gaussian fashion then it could be anything from lost sectors to DIP switches being out of synch.

 

or then it could be a dodgy power supply.

lol... well if that doesnt work you can try:

 

Sounds like your boot record sector either deleted itself or is corrupt. You can try running the fixboot command... put your windows disk in your drive and boot to it. Go into repair mode and it should give you a command prompt... type in 'fixboot c:' and hope for the best. If that doesnt work you can try doing a repair install which basically only replaces windows but keeps your data.

Run that fixboot thing he said, either that or you have a virus that gives you a 60 second restart. I've cleaned a couple of them before, they're a fucking pain.

 

You're better off rebuilding from scratch to be honest.

Wack a xp system disk in press R for repair, try to boot back into safemode then do some scans....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ias31By60N8

If the above mentioned stuff doesn't work, and before you go reformatting, download Memtestx86 and burn it to a CD and run it once. I had some bad RAM once and it would do the same thing timing out on reboots, and on occasion boot up to a black screen with the mouse but nothing else.