Automatic System Restart

[czcon1]

I have a couple issues so I'm going to put them all in this one post. First
thing it's my buddies computer but I helped him build it so I know all his
components. He was waiting to start a online poker torny left his computer
and when he returned it just kept restarting, it gets to the welcome screen
just barely starts the music then restarts. Nothing has been installed,
programs or new hardware lately. When he tries to start in safe mode same
thing happens, we have tried all the options, last known best config and so
on. Any ideas would be great. Second his floppy drive stopped working before
this happened so he replaced it with a new one and cable, the light is always
on, it's configured in the bios and in device manager it says it's working
properly. I mention this because we were going to reformat and reinstall
windows but he's got 2 SATA HD's in RAID 0, and need to install the raid
drivers from a floppy. So next question is is there anyway to install the
raid drivers without a floppy? What I would like to do is be able to start up
use the file and transfer wizard to save a few things then reinstall windows.
Any help would be appreciated. He's also running WINDOWS XP PRO W/SP2

[Vincent Isabelle]

First make only one POST. Now do a search in Google on how to make a Windows
Boot Disk, you are going to need a good floppy disk. Once that is done use
that disk to boot into you friends computer it may or may not work. And to
answer to your question NO you need the floppy drive to install the raid
drivers.

Good luck

"czcon1" wrote:

> I have a couple issues so I'm going to put them all in this one post. First
> thing it's my buddies computer but I helped him build it so I know all his
> components. He was waiting to start a online poker torny left his computer
> and when he returned it just kept restarting, it gets to the welcome screen
> just barely starts the music then restarts. Nothing has been installed,
> programs or new hardware lately. When he tries to start in safe mode same
> thing happens, we have tried all the options, last known best config and so
> on. Any ideas would be great. Second his floppy drive stopped working before
> this happened so he replaced it with a new one and cable, the light is always
> on, it's configured in the bios and in device manager it says it's working
> properly. I mention this because we were going to reformat and reinstall
> windows but he's got 2 SATA HD's in RAID 0, and need to install the raid
> drivers from a floppy. So next question is is there anyway to install the
> raid drivers without a floppy? What I would like to do is be able to start up
> use the file and transfer wizard to save a few things then reinstall windows.
> Any help would be appreciated. He's also running WINDOWS XP PRO W/SP2
>

[czcon1]

First I was'nt trying to post twice. Second I know how to make a boot disc
and that dos'nt work. And your saying there's no way to slipstream the raid
drivers on a windows CD.

"Vincent Isabelle" wrote:

> First make only one POST. Now do a search in Google on how to make a Windows
> Boot Disk, you are going to need a good floppy disk. Once that is done use
> that disk to boot into you friends computer it may or may not work. And to
> answer to your question NO you need the floppy drive to install the raid
> drivers.
>
> Good luck
>
> "czcon1" wrote:
>
> > I have a couple issues so I'm going to put them all in this one post. First
> > thing it's my buddies computer but I helped him build it so I know all his
> > components. He was waiting to start a online poker torny left his computer
> > and when he returned it just kept restarting, it gets to the welcome screen
> > just barely starts the music then restarts. Nothing has been installed,
> > programs or new hardware lately. When he tries to start in safe mode same
> > thing happens, we have tried all the options, last known best config and so
> > on. Any ideas would be great. Second his floppy drive stopped working before
> > this happened so he replaced it with a new one and cable, the light is always
> > on, it's configured in the bios and in device manager it says it's working
> > properly. I mention this because we were going to reformat and reinstall
> > windows but he's got 2 SATA HD's in RAID 0, and need to install the raid
> > drivers from a floppy. So next question is is there anyway to install the
> > raid drivers without a floppy? What I would like to do is be able to start up
> > use the file and transfer wizard to save a few things then reinstall windows.
> > Any help would be appreciated. He's also running WINDOWS XP PRO W/SP2
> >