01-05-2006, 11:16 PM
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Re: xp shutting down and rebooting after last software update
Will do, Thank you Tom
VEP
"Tom" wrote:
> back out the updates...see other 40 threads
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> "Flip" <Flip@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news DECD796-E883-4FA7-B335-DD15527C6867@microsoft.com...
> >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
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> > 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.
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