Author Topic: XP PRO just constantly reboots now...  (Read 2500 times)

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johnny canuk

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XP PRO just constantly reboots now...
« on: January 14, 2007, 01:07:07 AM »
A friend's Pentium II 350 was having problems conecting to the internet. I assumed it was parlty that he had no anti-virus. I went to a restore point from a few months back and this resolved the connection issue. I tnen proceeded to download your free antivirus application. It prompted me to reboot and so I did. When it finished its boot scan, it rebooted again and now it is in a perpetual state of reboot. I went into bios and disabled the anti-virus, and I even tried to F8 to safe mode but it just continues to reboot once it gets past the XP Logo Start Screen.

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Re: XP PRO just constantly reboots now...
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2007, 01:33:27 AM »
Sounds like a conflict with another low-level application, possibly even another antivirus.
Try the "Last known good" configuration from the boot-menu.

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Re: XP PRO just constantly reboots now...
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2007, 01:43:09 PM »
Other possibilities could be malware/rootkit infection  ::)
See recent thread related to that http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=25982.0;topicseen
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johnny canuk

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Re: last known good config...
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2007, 06:32:01 PM »
Tried it... it just went right back to rebooting.