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From: Searcher7 on 1 Nov 2009 01:56 I have a Dell XPS-Z 866Mhz Pentium 3, with 384mb and a 20Gig hard drive that is only two thirds full.. When I power the system on it tends to reset and start over at varying point during the booting sequence. I usually get to a point where I have to press "DEL" to get it to re-boot, and sometimes I make it as far as my desktop, but then after a couple of seconds the machine will reboot again. At first it only happened occasionally, but it has been getting progressively worse, and the last time I turned it on I went through the re-booting cycle 8 or 9 times before it finally stayed on. Any ideas on what to look at first? Could it be the power supply? Thanks. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York.
From: B.D.© on 1 Nov 2009 01:08 Searcher7 wrote: > I have a Dell XPS-Z 866Mhz Pentium 3, with 384mb and a 20Gig hard > drive that is only two thirds full.. > > When I power the system on it tends to reset and start over at varying > point during the booting sequence. I usually get to a point where I > have to press "DEL" to get it to re-boot, and sometimes I make it as > far as my desktop, but then after a couple of seconds the machine will > reboot again. > > At first it only happened occasionally, but it has been getting > progressively worse, and the last time I turned it on I went through > the re-booting cycle 8 or 9 times before it finally stayed on. > > Any ideas on what to look at first? Could it be the power supply? > > Thanks. > > Darren Harris > Staten Island, New York. I could be several things. What happens when you try to boot into Safe Mode? To get into safe mode, start tapping the F8 key when you first see the Dell boot screen. Select Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking when the options screen shows. If the system has been consistently shutting down then there is a good possibility that the Options menu will be showing as soon as your system restarts so you won't need to use the F8 key.
From: Rich Barry on 1 Nov 2009 01:11 Darren, when and if you get WinXP to load up and stay on try rt clicking MyComputer>select Properties>Advanced>Startup and Recovery>Uncheck the box Automatically Restart. That might give you a blue screen with error message next time this happens. Post the error message here. Otherwise, I agree that it could be your Power Supply. "Searcher7" <Searcher7(a)mail.con2.com> wrote in message news:b819b3f1-83e1-4f7a-b700-eddcde87f7f5(a)w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com... >I have a Dell XPS-Z 866Mhz Pentium 3, with 384mb and a 20Gig hard > drive that is only two thirds full.. > > When I power the system on it tends to reset and start over at varying > point during the booting sequence. I usually get to a point where I > have to press "DEL" to get it to re-boot, and sometimes I make it as > far as my desktop, but then after a couple of seconds the machine will > reboot again. > > At first it only happened occasionally, but it has been getting > progressively worse, and the last time I turned it on I went through > the re-booting cycle 8 or 9 times before it finally stayed on. > > Any ideas on what to look at first? Could it be the power supply? > > Thanks. > > Darren Harris > Staten Island, New York.
From: D. Kirkpatrick on 1 Nov 2009 01:29 In article <b819b3f1-83e1-4f7a-b700-eddcde87f7f5(a)w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, Searcher7 <Searcher7(a)mail.con2.com> wrote: > I have a Dell XPS-Z 866Mhz Pentium 3, with 384mb and a 20Gig hard > drive that is only two thirds full.. > > When I power the system on it tends to reset and start over at varying > point during the booting sequence. I usually get to a point where I > have to press "DEL" to get it to re-boot, and sometimes I make it as > far as my desktop, but then after a couple of seconds the machine will > reboot again. > > At first it only happened occasionally, but it has been getting > progressively worse, and the last time I turned it on I went through > the re-booting cycle 8 or 9 times before it finally stayed on. > > Any ideas on what to look at first? Could it be the power supply? > > Thanks. > > Darren Harris > Staten Island, New York. As suggested may be several things. I recently checked a system that kept shutting down and refusing to reboot for long periods of time. I found the circulating fan attached to the central processor chip had died so it was over heating. I replaced the fan and all was better. On my wife's system I recently heard the same fan cluthing into overdrive and when I opened it up I found the fins were caked with dust. A brush and vacuum later and all is well.
From: Christopher Muto on 1 Nov 2009 08:43
no cross posting please. never heard of a xps-z. what model are you talking about? desktop or laptop? what operating system? "Searcher7" <Searcher7(a)mail.con2.com> wrote in message news:b819b3f1-83e1-4f7a-b700-eddcde87f7f5(a)w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com... >I have a Dell XPS-Z 866Mhz Pentium 3, with 384mb and a 20Gig hard > drive that is only two thirds full.. > > When I power the system on it tends to reset and start over at varying > point during the booting sequence. I usually get to a point where I > have to press "DEL" to get it to re-boot, and sometimes I make it as > far as my desktop, but then after a couple of seconds the machine will > reboot again. > > At first it only happened occasionally, but it has been getting > progressively worse, and the last time I turned it on I went through > the re-booting cycle 8 or 9 times before it finally stayed on. > > Any ideas on what to look at first? Could it be the power supply? > > Thanks. > > Darren Harris > Staten Island, New York. |