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Old Nov 15, 2004 | 12:21 PM
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ill turn on the computer, bios screen loads, them bam it restarts. itll do this about 10-20 times. i reduced the clock speed and finally got in. any ideas?
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Old Nov 15, 2004 | 12:22 PM
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Old Nov 15, 2004 | 12:23 PM
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Old Nov 15, 2004 | 12:23 PM
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It's over-heating? :dunno:

You sure are persistant for doing that 10-20 times. h:
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Old Nov 15, 2004 | 12:25 PM
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naw itll restart itself for 10-20 times. illjust go watch tv until someting new pops up
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Old Nov 15, 2004 | 03:07 PM
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It's over-heating? :dunno:
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Even though I'm pretty noobish with computers still, I've had that happen before (when I had no cpu fan :eek3: ).
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Old Nov 17, 2004 | 01:58 PM
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alright guys. im having the problem again. it cant be over heating because i have like 2extra fans in there. just blew out a ton of dust etc.

im either gonna do a reformat or buy a mac :wtc:
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Old Nov 17, 2004 | 01:59 PM
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have you changed any hardware?

if not, try to do a repair installation w/ xp before you actually format.
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Old Nov 17, 2004 | 02:09 PM
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when starting up spanky, it says that there was a hardware change but i didnt do a thing!


ok thanks, ill try to repair xp.


now that i think about it, weird shit started happening when i installed sp2 and uninstalled it :wtc:
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Old Nov 17, 2004 | 02:11 PM
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repair install should take care of it
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