Crashes while booting up

billy_bulldog

I just fitted a larger HDD, but still get a repeat of a problem I had with the old drive.

Most times, the machine will not fully boot into XP before resetting itself. Sometimes the cycle consists of three reboots before XP fully loads, which then runs faultlessly. Sometimes the PC hangs on the BIOS screen, sometime just as the blue welcome screen appears and sometimes XP starts but fails during the setting up of the antivirus/firewall/spyware utils that load upon startup.

What could I try to change / fix?

Thanks,


bb

rogerramjet

There is a potential that your memory is failing, or the processor is failing/overheating. I've also seen errors like this due to faulty IDE leads, which is usually the last thing you'd think of. check you memory is seated correctly, if I remember correctly a while back in this forum there was links to software which checked your memory...if you can get it booted

christie_m

Yep I'd concur with the duff memory or overheating CPU too.

Haven't seen this problem with dud leads though - that's a new one on me. (You learn something new every day)