Reboot Loop

[allstate250]

Haven't been able to find a topic on this issue yet ... looked for about an hr.

Just upgraded my computer, replaced most everything except all drives and video card. Have an Asus A8V-SLI Deluxe with an Athalon 64 3700+. Set BIOS to default and still have the problem. When I turn on the computer, BIOS seems to pass, but the system will reboot right before the Windows XP splash screen should pop up. The only way out is to go to the BIOS screen or power off. Had the problem on a previous build, but it's been so long ago and my brain is fried tonight from work. Anybody have any suggestions?

Any help appreciated.

[Spider]

Hi allstate250 welcome to CyberTechHelp.

Boot to your Windows XP CD and select Recovery Consol
type chkdsk /r when it's done
type fixboot
reboot to CD and consol again
type fixmbr
boot to BIOS settings and go directly to Save and Exit Settings

[allstate250]

Spider,
I tried the above and it is still rebooting. You have any other ideas?

[Spider]

In your BIOS settings there is a section that reports CPU temperature and fan speeds. What are those numbers?

[allstate250]

cpu temp: 36
mobo temp: 39
cpu fan: 3750
cha1 fan: 2109
chip fan: 5273

[Spider]

Originally Posted by allstate250

Asus A8V-SLI Deluxe

I'm trying to see what the latest bios update is but I don't see that model at Asus. The only models they show on A8Vs are
A8V
A8V-MX
A8V Deluxe
A8V-E Deluxe
A8V-E SE

Your current bios date...
Command Prompt
type debug enter (wait for hyphen)
type d ffff:5L8 enter (dates on the right)
type q to quit debug

In my signature is Everest, it will identify the exact motherboard model.

[allstate250]

I have tried booting to safe mode, and it seems to hang at on a file in the system32/drivers folder, filename mup.sys. Is there a way to disable that driver when booting up in safe mode for XP? I seem to remember booting in safe mode where you check off which drivers boot and which don't, but that may have been an older OS too.

[Spider]

Originally Posted by allstate250

hang at on a file...mup.sys

That is normal, Safe Mode should come on after about a minute at mup.sys screen.

[allstate250]

Sorry. Mobo is A8N-SLi Deluxe. Amazing how much difference one char makes

[allstate250]

Safe mode will not boot. It starts the drivers and the system reboots after it loads mup.sys. I can't get any further than that except to boot to bios or cd

[Spider]

They have version 1013 dated 2005/08/1
the flash tool has been updated as well to version 1.09 (Phoenix-Award BIOS flash tool V1.09)

I seem to remember booting in safe mode where you check off which drivers boot and which don't

In my signature is HijackThis, you can post a log from that and we can see what's booting
with the computer. (we'll have to wait to fix the Safe Mode first)

Mobo is A8N-SLi Deluxe. Amazing how much difference one char makes

Humans don't care, computers do.

[Spider]

EDITED:

I would update the motherboard.

[allstate250]

I will try that again (recovery console, fixboot, etc), but i tried first thing this morning and it was still rebooting. I have downloaded bios and tried downloading chipset driver, but it would do no good because file is 30mb and my laptop is so old that i have no cd burner. I'll give this a shot, but after that, I don't know what to do other than repartition and start over.