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ReBoot Loop

Asked by BOSS_Lady in Personal Computers, Windows XP Operating System, General Computer Systems

Hi, checked the site for failed floppy drive seek and reboot loop and did find solution or I didn't look hard enough.
Here's what I've got: Dell Demension E310, Windows XP , hard drive, cdrw and "NO FLOPPY"
Power up "Failure seek, no floppy drive. Select F1 and go forward.
Sometimes the system goes on to windows and sometimes it just begins a reboot loop.
During the reboot loop all front panel lights are flashing off and on with hd light going to amber.

When the system does suceed in logging into windows it will run for a while and power off, sometimes prior to the power off windows does go into "shut down screen" saving settings, etc, sometimes it does not.
Activity "on or off" internet does not produce failure

Actions taken:
1) Reset bios and removed floppy from boot sequence
2) Restored windows from Dell Recovery console
3) Checked logs and failed state = failed to shut down Rousey (name of pc), not sure why the system tried to since I did not instruct it to do so.
4) Now when I do succesfully get to the event log, it shuts down, ie., "windows is shutting down now"
so sometimes I get the message and sometimes I don't. Finally, while using the event viewer I get the message "mmc failed to open".

Now What??
Thanks

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ReBoot Loop

Asked by BOSS_Lady in Personal Computers, Windows XP Operating System, General Computer Systems

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