non booting computer

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a new hd, new mother board, and an OEM copy of XP.
>The board was made by ECS and I've currently got 256
megs
>of PC 2700 DDR RAM in it (which it supports fine) and a
>P4 clocked @ 1.7 GHz. The exact model is P4s5a made by
>ECS and Im trying standard Windows XP Home Edition. The
>power supply is 350 watts.
>When I try booting and it gets to the place where you
>select which user profile, then all drives wind down and
>it starts to reboot. This just repeats. HELP. John
>.
>
I have tried pulling everything but the video card, RAM,
CD and hard drives, that doesnt have any effect. I have
reformated adn reinstalled XP a total of 6 times so far
with both FAT32 and NTFS systems on the HD. I've done
a "repair install" a few times as well. The user select
screen I was refering to is the light blue-ish screen
which displays all the different users' "accounts" where
you select one and then go to the desktop (e.g.; John
Guest Admin etc). The fact that it gets to this screen
leads me to believe that nothing in wrong with XP as the
boot record seems to be intact.

Where is this option to disable auto reboot you spoke of
earlier, I am pretty sure I can fix this if I know what
error is occuring.

Thanks
John

[Nick Burns]

Control pan>system>advanced>"startup and recovery", uncheck the restart box.

> wrote in message
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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have a new hd, new mother board, and an OEM copy of XP.
> >The board was made by ECS and I've currently got 256
> megs
> >of PC 2700 DDR RAM in it (which it supports fine) and a
> >P4 clocked @ 1.7 GHz. The exact model is P4s5a made by
> >ECS and Im trying standard Windows XP Home Edition. The
> >power supply is 350 watts.
> >When I try booting and it gets to the place where you
> >select which user profile, then all drives wind down and
> >it starts to reboot. This just repeats. HELP. John
> >.
> >
> I have tried pulling everything but the video card, RAM,
> CD and hard drives, that doesnt have any effect. I have
> reformated adn reinstalled XP a total of 6 times so far
> with both FAT32 and NTFS systems on the HD. I've done
> a "repair install" a few times as well. The user select
> screen I was refering to is the light blue-ish screen
> which displays all the different users' "accounts" where
> you select one and then go to the desktop (e.g.; John
> Guest Admin etc). The fact that it gets to this screen
> leads me to believe that nothing in wrong with XP as the
> boot record seems to be intact.
>
> Where is this option to disable auto reboot you spoke of
> earlier, I am pretty sure I can fix this if I know what
> error is occuring.
>
> Thanks
> John