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Setup is being restarted continual loop

The motherboard in my system broke, so I have changed it for a new one.

I read articles which suggested not letting the PC boot but rather do a repair install immediately. I did this but the install is in a continual loop:

At the end of the installing Windows part, where it does an auto reboot, it then shows "setup is being restarted" and goes back to the installing Windows part at about 39 minutes to go.

Any help much appreciated as I do not want to do a clean install.
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your not letting your system reboot from the CD are you?
take it out of the drive and check!
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If only life were that simple!

No I have tried taking the CD out of the drive and then it just won't boot

test your hard drive :

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Maxtor/Quantum (Fireball) http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/
Samsung http://www.samsungelectronics.com/hdd/support/utilities/utilities_index.html
Seagate http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
fujitsu/Seimens hard-drives/#diagnostic">http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

If you do not know the drive manufacturer try some generic drive testers

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ZDU http://www.webattack.com/get/zdu.shtml
Zdu is a diagnostic utility for disks & directories. It comes as a GUI version as well as a command line only version (both included).

Everest Home Edition http://www.lavalys.com/download.php?dlid=1
An easy to use report wizard allows you to create detailed reports in the format of your choice

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DiskChecker http://www.webattack.com/get/diskchecker.shtml
Disk Checker is a disk diagnostics, repair and disk image tool for FAT and NTFS.

Drive Health http://www.webattack.com/get/drivehealth.gif.shtml
Drive Health helps you to estimate your hard disks life resource. It allows you to predict possible hard drive failure


And it won't be a bad idea to test your memory too :

www.memtest86.org


Good luck,

MrAruba
as mrAruba says - check your memory in that case, loops on at that stage of install are either down to a corrupt registry hive or the ram going nuts
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well, it can be you need a clean install, but i want to add this :
you said you changed the mobo, did you change the cpu too? in that case, it can be your power supply can't handle the load, so test what power you need here :   http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/      
Thanks Merete

It was the video card that was stopping the repair install. The mainboard didn't have onboard video but I put an old PCI video card in and the install worked fine. Then reverted to NVidia GeForce3 card and that installed OK.

You have saved me doing a fresh install and I am very grateful
Yey good to hear. Understanding these cards require a clean formatted hdd to install .therefore if and when you change the mainboard specs your in trouble with the cards drivers and windows will crash.
 My pleasure CrossMouse