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    Computer keeps rebooting...

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by hybucket, Apr 17, 2007.

  1. hybucket

    hybucket Notebook Enthusiast

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    My Acer laptop shut down yesterday - when I rebooted it, it got to the XP screen, then rebooted again. It goes in a reboot loop. That's as far as it will go. It will not allow me into SAFE mode, and will not boot up from the CD Drive. Any one have any solution, or reason why this is happening? I'm still on warranty, so I may just take it to where I bought it. Should I be concerned about losing what's on there?? Aside from a not-bright-enough screen, I have been happy with the Acer til now.
     
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    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    Did you install any new software or do anything significant to your system before this happened? It's pretty strange that you can't boot into safemode. If I were you, I'd just find a way to get your data off there and reformat.
     
    hehe299792458, Apr 17, 2007
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    Nothing new installed. Not doing anything out of the ordinary.
    Have taken it to where I bought it - let them figure it out.
     
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    You didn't say what acer model you have, however can you still use alt+f10 to try to recovery from acer's hidden partition on the hard drive? Mind you doing this will wipe your C drive and restore windows back to factory install. You said that the notebook will not boot from CD, but did you remember to enable this option in the bios?

    You see by default windows is designed to reboot itself upon encountering a problem, but you can change this undesired behavior once in windows by hitting the windows key + pausebreak then go over to advanced tab and then in startup and recovery uncheck "automatically restart" on system failure. With that setup you will be able to see what error is leading to windows is rebooting.

    I have heard of this rebooting loop in the past with windows XP but there seems to be no concrete solution. Most of the time it was traced to faulty ram or corrupted windows system core files.

    Try alt+f10 at the post screen and see what happens.
     
    Evolution, Apr 17, 2007
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    It's an ACER 5004 - thanks for the altF10 suggestion, but I really don't want to wipe out the C drive unless absolutely necessary. There's a ton of work-related stuff on there that I need.
    I have checked several forums, and yes, it does seem to be a somewhat common problem with XP. I've found various solutions, and hopefully, one of the fine technical crew at Micro Center can figure out something.
     
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    Thanks for the F10 suggeston, but I really don't want to wipe out all the work-related stuff I"ve got on there. It's a 5004, BTW. I did a forum search, and found it to be a somewhat common problem with XP. I'm hoping the gurus at MicroCenter where I bought it can figure something out
     
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