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"Flip" <Flip@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a desktop computer with Windows XP Home Edition (Ver. 2002)
> Service
> Pack 2
> It has a Pent 4 Cpu 1.8GHz 512mb of RAM
>
> I do updates regularly and have Norton AntiVirus 2005 on it as well as
> various spyware guards. These too are updated and run regularly. I last
> ran
> the Windows Update on Dec. 14th, 05. It took 3 updates, KB890830,
> KB905915
> and KB910437. I shut the computer down for the night and the next day when
> my
> daughter booted it upit started to shut down and reboot on its own. As it
> turns out, it accepted 2 of the updates but not KB890830.
>
> I can turn the computer on cold and it will cycle through to the Windows
> page and then I get a blue screen with words real fast and then it just
> shuts
> down and restarts and comes to the screen where it asks if I want to start
> in
> safe mode. I can start in safe mode. I can start in safe mode with
> networking. There is no specific time they stay on before they shut down.
> Sometimes it reboots again. Sometimes the screen gets frozen in 'Windows
> xp'
> other times it is in the scrolling safe mode words for a long time before
> it
> starts up. I have tried to do a System restore in safe mode as well as
> when
> it has booted to the regular screen. When it has been able to run all the
> way through I get a message that says it cannot restore to that date, pick
> another date.
>
> If anyone can help me with this or has any idea of what route i should
> take,
> short of reformatting, please let me know.
> Thank You,
> V.E.P.