my mate using windows 2000 and recently had this problem. when he switces the computer on, it boots up and after showing the start up windows screen / logo it either shuts down or restarts. all the hardware and software are right coz hez been using that system with windows 2000 for time now. how do we sort this problem out. what should he do now...thanx
I had this problem awhile back and it turned out to be the ram, but you should check and see what it does when it encounters and error. Somewhere (i am not sure right off the top of my head) in the properties of My Computer, there is an option for what to do when it gets errors. I remember one of those was to restart the computer, and another was to do a memory dump. Look and see what that one is set at.
he cant get in to windows coz when he starts the computer, it either shuts down or restarts without actually going in to windows. now he has the original windows 2000 cds. is there any way to use that CD and recover the system.
Can he boot to safe mode? You can try and recover with the CDs, I have never really done that, so I don't know if it is guarenteed to work or not, but it is worth a shot.
thats what i want to know step bu step what should he do. i mean how should he recover using the cd. i need to know step by step.