I know there are many discussions and threads around this subject. I have tried many of the suggestions in other threads, without any luck.

The PC with this problem is my friend's pc, and it boots up until the desktop, and while loading desktop items, shuts down, and re-starts again, in an infinite loop.

I took my own windows xp pro cd, and tried to reboot from cd, using the R command as well as enter and the repair options, without any luck.

We can not format and do a clean install, as my friend has stuff on the pc that he doesn't want to loose, and I am really not clued up to perform back up for this.

I can however reboot successfully in safe mode, and browse the control panel if I'm locked in as administrator. The thing is, I do not know what to look for, to try and fix this problem in safe mode.

Any suggestions, tips, and how to's will be so appreciated. Remember, that I followed most of the already posted suggestions in other related threads without success.

I know that I will get some positive how to's here on daniweb to solve this problem, and I thank anyone in advance that wants to share their expertize with this monkey.

Hi,
This could be caused by a myriad of things. But if you can get into safe mode go to control panel and the Administrative tools, open the event viewer and have a look at he system log and application log. THis will show any errors and warnings. Post them back here and someone should be able to help.

Dave

Hi Dave

Thanks for your response. Administrative tools just have nothing in it when I open it. It is empty. Any suggestions?

Hi,
When you tried the repair option was that the first one for the recovery console . Cause the second repair option comes up after you accept the terms. The second will just replace all the os files leaving the others intact. Let me know and I will think on other options.

Dave

Hi Dave

I tried both repair options, First, I tried to do the one where it asks you to accept the terms, reloads the files, and asks for the windows key, and when that did not solve the problem, I tried the chkdsk /r option, a couple of times, also with no success.

Okay then, may be a hardware problem, I would probably try changing the ram next. If you have more than one stick of ram in try removing one, if the same thing happens replaceit and remove the other one. Or ry totally different ram.

Luck

Dave

I forgot to mention, there are two windows xp pro installed on this pc. I don't know why. Both goes into this loop. Is that not maybe the problem? What wil happen if I format the one where there is no files on that needs to be backed up, will the other one with the files on it still be untouched? I am trying to back up those files from safemode, but the system does not recognize the cd inside the drive, or the external memory stick that I want to use to back up to. Any suggestions on this as well?

Hi
Are they both on the same drive and partition?

Dave

I presume it is the same drive, I don't think there are more than one drive on this pc. When I boot up, it let me choose which one I want to boot, number 1 Windows XP or 2 Windows XP. Each one opens briefly with a different desktop display, before it loops again, so I think the drive is partitioned?

Hi, if you boot into safe mode cn you get run to work? If you can try running msconfig and go to boot.ini. You should get something like the image attached. Just click on "check all boot paths" and let me know the results.
Dave