In news:45081D36-AF3B-42BD-A220-5A8F60BC1A5D@microsoft.com,
Daddio <Daddio@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> A friends computer upon booting up continuosly goes into the Safe
> Mode screen then recycles turning itself off and back on, no matter
> how I try to circumvent this situation it keeps happening. So far I
> have attempted to check all hardware with the exception of the
> motherboard.
>
> Is it all all possible I need to simply try to perform an XP repair?
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Daddio (Richie NY)
I'd start with a repair at this point, if you can't get into the OS then
it's usually the best method other than a side-by-side installation on
another partition and then cleaning up the old one, editing the boot.ini,
and generally mucking about for a while...
Repair Installation of XP :
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/xprepair.html
Galen
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