Constantly Restarting

[DDRtists]

Heres whats going on...

My mom had been installing something she downloaded, and it turns out it was infected by something, so naturally we were running a virus scan to get it fixed, and when finished it asked us to restart. Well, during the restart, when booting windows with the xp logo and stuff, it restarts. It was doing this constantly every time I tried booting it. Now I figured that a repair of the windows install would work, from the windows cd...nope. It works fine until it gets to the "setup is restarting........" part, then it restarts.

So I hooked the drive into my computer and installed windows on the hdd on mine, and it worked fine. Moved it to hers, and it doesn't. Still restarts.

Really frustrating, any ideas? I'm thinking its the ram, not sure though.

Edit:
Oh yeah, it didn't work on the original hdd, so we went down and bought a second drive...and it doesn't work either.
I re-installed windows on the new drive, not the old one.

 

[13lade619]

havent seen you booting safe mode in your post..
ever tried that?

if the 3 top safe modes don't work, (just like mine)
then use the 'directory service restore mode' on the middle part.
^this option also works on safe mode.. for some reason my pc cant access the top safemodes.. but that's my problem .

then system restore..

 

[Prometheus]

Check internal components for dust, chipping and the like.

 

[DDRtists]

Oh yeah, forgot about that part too...

All the PC hardware, the mobo, ram, hdd's, everything, are about two months old, max.

@blade: no matter what I do, it restarts. Yes, I've tried safe mode.

 

[13lade619]

hmm.. oh yeah i seem to remember an option on the F8 screen saying..

"disable automatic restart on error" or somethin.. tried that one?

 

[Prometheus]

Do you know if your BIOS anti-write was turned off? Try getting into your bios, someone may of screwed with the CPU clock. If you can't get into yor bios, I'd suggest resetting it.

And if all else fails, flashing it.

 

[DDRtists]

hmm.. oh yeah i seem to remember an option on the F8 screen saying..

"disable automatic restart on error" or somethin.. tried that one?

I'll give that a shot and get back to you on what it says, I'm chkdsk'ing right now.

Do you know if your BIOS anti-write was turned off? Try getting into your bios, someone may of screwed with the CPU clock. If you can't get into yor bios, I'd suggest resetting it.

And if all else fails, flashing it.

Already tried resetting it, that didn't work. So I tried removing the cmos battery to completely reset it, that didn't work either...

edit:
So I can't find the "no restart" option in bios, and it's not the ram...

 

[AnthraxXx]

What antivirus were you using?

 

[Prometheus]

Twas not a virus, something is fucked up with the computer.

Did you add any new components or swapped PSUs? Namely a CPU or GFX Card.

 

[DDRtists]

Added or changed absolutely nothing.

So I flashed the bios with an update, removed one ( theres two ) of the rams, and a few other things. Nothing work, which leads me to believe it's the motherboard, yes?

 

[Blackveiled]

Added or changed absolutely nothing.

So I flashed the bios with an update, removed one ( theres two ) of the rams, and a few other things. Nothing work, which leads me to believe it's the motherboard, yes?

I've had this problem before, I had to fix it because my processor burnt out. But there's a chance it could be the motherboard. You should try switching the motherboard to another computer and see if it is the motherboard.

 

[DDRtists]

Well, I ran windows setup and chkdsk and a bunch of other stuff, so I would think the processor wouldn't work for that stuff either?

 

[Varine]

When you put it in yours, were you booting from your disk or hers?

 

[Blackveiled]

Well, I ran windows setup and chkdsk and a bunch of other stuff, so I would think the processor wouldn't work for that stuff either?

Well, if the processor is going out the computer will restart very often for no reason really. I just think you should check that out just for the hell of it, so you don't waste any money.

 

[DDRtists]

When you put it in yours, were you booting from your disk or hers?

I tried both. Her windows install is corrupted from something, but as a secondary drive hers works fine in mine.

 

[Varine]

With OS doesn't need to work for it be secondary. I would just transfer what she needs off of it and reformat.

 

[Prometheus]

Installing windows on one drive, and hotswapping it over to another isn't the best idea.

Wait, you reinstalled windows on that computer, on that drive?

 

[Varine]

Installing windows on one drive, and hotswapping it over to another isn't the best idea.

Wait, you reinstalled windows on that computer, on that drive?

He isn't hotswapping anything.

 

[Prometheus]

I picked up that he formatted and installed windows on another comp, and shoved HD into moms comp.

 

[Varine]

I picked up that he formatted and installed windows on another comp, and shoved HD into moms comp.

That's not hotswapping.

I think he ran the recovery console, didn't reformat it.

DDR what did you do? We're confused.