Windows XP boot/reboot[KILLED]

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

I boot XP... it goes to a black screen.. blue screen(background color)... reboots.

***.

[CyberSurfer]

This happened to my housemate recently, problem was a corrupted FS. Boot to the XP recovery console and run chkdsk a couple of times until no more errors are reported.

[Ideas Man]

Did you do a major hardware change recently? You may have to repair your installation of XP.

Boot off the CD, Press Enter, F8, R to repair, not the first repair but the second.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

I took out a floppy drive, because I never use it.

I'll try the recovery.

[DeadEyes]

Could it be that the boot sequence trys to load from floppy first
but becuase there is no floppy drive it's messing up.

[Ideas Man]

Nah, he said that he boots XP, gets a blue screen (critical stop, BSOD) and then it reboots. The boot order wouldn't affect it because Windows wouldn't load at all if it did.

[Ideas Man]

Actually try booting into Safe Mode, if you can boot into Safe Mode, then it's something that starts up like a faulty driver or something. If it doesn't boot into safe mode, then do recovery/repair.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

I don't get a BSOD, it just reboots. I don't have the CD, so I can't recover.

I'm thinking I'll just kill it.... It's on this machine(has 2K and 98 too). I never liked XP anyway.

[Ideas Man]

The BSOD only appears for an instant, it's very quick. Try the safe mode idea anyway.

Also, how could you not like XP? I love it, best thing since sliced bread .

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Originally posted by Ideas Man
The BSOD only appears for an instant, it's very quick. Try the safe mode idea anyway.

Also, how could you not like XP? I love it, best thing since sliced bread .

Safe mode doesn't work.

The fact that it doesn't boot correctly should be an obvious reason.

Other than the obvious(?):

Poor memory(resource) management, I loves my Win2k!
Specifically when attempting to multi-task. Which, to me, is a requirement!
General bugginess(yes, vague, I know)

I use the Advanced Server edition of Windows 2000(no IIS installed though). Perhaps that's why it's so stable and performs excellently. Without any of the superfluous baggage that XP has.

I'm not trying to sound like XP is all bad. I like the systray being able to hide icons. It seems XP can utilize my CPU better, but not manage memory anywhere near as well as Win2k(when the system is being pushed).

For example... in XP if I'm rendering then multi-tasking is basically not going to happen(atleast not at an acceptable response time*cough*minutes*cough*). In Windows 2k however, I could be rendering, open Photoshop(while rendering, it's no problem for 2K), chat with a few friends, and be listening to Winamp all the while. And all basically seamlessly(depending on the rendering's memory requirements). Worst case, Win2k will take upto a few seconds to respond(again, I loves my Win2k).

Yea... I'm a power user though. Most standard users probably wouldn't notice XP's problems.