PC keeps rebooting

Payton · 19-09-2009 2:28pm #1

Hi all, need a quick fix here, I have a friends Dell inspirion 5000 pc, there was a lot of clutter on it so we decided to reinstall windows XP home the origional disk. It goes through all the procedures "Formating the Drive" "coping Files" but when it reboots Im getting an error. Basiclly the Pc will reboot the Dell logo comes up and then it reboots again and keeps repeating it's self just as far as the Dell logo.
Can anyone through some light on this pls.
We have tried the recovery disc and that came up ok.

Outkast_IRE · 19-09-2009 2:31pm

At a big guess can you check if the ram is correctly configured in the bios

Payton · 19-09-2009 2:36pm

can you tell me, I had a look in the bios and I dont think they can be changed

Kevster · 19-09-2009 2:44pm

I think I encountered something similar many years ago, but that would have been a different OS obviously. Which level format are you doing? Try a high-level [long] format, if you haven't already done so. Also, try getting your hands on a bootdisk from another computer if you can, and then usse it on the laptop.

http://www.bootdisk.com/

Kevin

5uspect · 19-09-2009 2:49pm

Have you changed the boot sequence? Sometimes if you have the CD drive first then it does back into the disk rather than continue the install from the HDD.

Payton · 19-09-2009 2:52pm

Thanks guys, ive rung my mate and he told me he got an extra 2gb of ram installed, so ive removed them and down to 1gb,
As for the Boot disk I'll try and download it but on a slow laptop at the mo. We have done a long format NTFS but still the same

Payton · 19-09-2009 2:56pm

ok tried it with the origional ram in it now Im getting "A disk read error occurred Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to Restart"

Kevster · 19-09-2009 3:01pm

Reformat it again now with the original RAM in it. Actually, just reinstall Windows. it should detect the RAM and configure the relevant settings.

5uspect · 19-09-2009 3:02pm

on the verge wrote: »

ok tried it with the origional ram in it now Im getting "A disk read error occurred Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to Restart"

I had that error recently with a Dimension 3000. Had to format the drive to fix it.
Obviously tho, you've already done that.

Can you use a spare hard drive?

Payton · 19-09-2009 3:02pm

ok will do I'll be back asap

Payton · 19-09-2009 3:21pm

Its very slow 30% at the moment

Payton · 19-09-2009 4:12pm

Thanks guys, I reformatted it with the original Ram and it worked a treat, its on the first phase of the reinstall. When everything is back up and running I'll reinstall the other 2GB of Ram.
Thanks again guys

Outkast_IRE · 19-09-2009 9:05pm

if i was you id memtest that other new ram he got is there a chance that you were installing the os with that in the comp and it caused a few errors.

Payton · 19-09-2009 10:53pm

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

if i was you id memtest that other new ram he got is there a chance that you were installing the os with that in the comp and it caused a few errors.

Thanks again, I'll do a mem test on the ram tomorrow. But it was working fine yesterday with the 3GB in.

Outkast_IRE · 20-09-2009 1:01pm

on the verge wrote: »

Thanks again, I'll do a mem test on the ram tomorrow. But it was working fine yesterday with the 3GB in.

Well ram problems are tricky sometimes i had a ram problem that would only pop up when playing really demanding games otherwise comp would work perfect the rest of the time

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