Hi guys, I have a problem with my Win XP Media Center Edition 2005 which has
a black startup screen briefly displayed and my computer keeps restarting
repeatedly at startup no matter what I do. This happened when I downloaded
mp3 compression software from download.com. After the software was installed
and restarting was required to take effect the computer kept restarting. I
tried safe mode(keeps restarting) and safe mode with command prompt and
also restore to last known configuration and same problem. I tried to
disable automatic restart after system failure and get blue screen with
Stop error message(STOP:
0x00000050,0x8872A990,)x0000001,0x804F3507,0x00000 000). I want to use the
Restore feature in Win XP and cannot. Also I wondered if it was a virus and
how I could scan and remove. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks guys.

I've only seen that happen once in all my years of using computers., It
happened when someone yanked the plug on a running system so I plugged it in
and tried to restart it and it got maybe 15 seconds into the POST (power on
self test) and it kicked out and restarted booting again from the beginning.
Turns out it was a chip on the mobo and the mobo was junk. It all depends
where it stops booting, if its really early in the process, thats bad. Very
bad. On the other hand, if it basically fully boots and it's only finishing
loading some software after loading the os and everything then its probably
simply some software. Can you go to safe mode? If it stops booting and
restarts from the beginning before you can go to safe mode, its bad.

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I have a problem with my Win XP Media Center Edition 2005
Walt

I believe that your chances of getting good help are proportional
to the narrowness of the focus of the group to which you post.
In decending order:
A Microsoft Media Center group
A Microsoft Windows group
A computer-related group
An electronics group

A Usenet archive search, sorted by relevance:
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups...buse-sightings

REBOOT and see if F8 will allow Safe Mode startup. If not get out the
emergency startup disk and have a go at reinstalling the operations system.
IMHO Before doing that try Virus Removal Techniques.
May want to use your Norton's [McAffee] Original Disk and boot from it,
then do a through Virus Search allowing Nortons [or McAffee's] to do it's
best at removing the nasties you probably downloaded also.
Worse case senerio: You may need to remove the H/D and connect it tp
another opertating system to atempt recovering any information you
absolutely require. Then reinstall into the original PC, Fdisk it, and
reinstall everything.
Sounds like you have a FUBARD on your hands, patience and persistance will
make the system operational again.
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I have a problem with my Win XP Media Center Edition 2005
Walt

I believe that your chances of getting good help are proportional
to the narrowness of the focus of the group to which you post.
In decending order:
A Microsoft Media Center group
A Microsoft Windows group
A computer-related group
An electronics group

A Usenet archive search, sorted by relevance:
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups...buse-sightings