Hey,
Background
My problem started yesterday when I turned on my computer. It loaded into windows, I logged on, and it was all working fine, but when I walked away and came back 5 or so minutes later, I was logged off. I didn't think much of it at the time so I just logged back on, but two minutes after logging back in, the computer just restarted. I logged back on, and nothing happened so I left it.
Problem
When I got up this morning and turned my computer on it started a restart loop. I have system commander 8 installed from a while ago when I was running a dual boot system, and I have it set to time out to XP after 3 seconds. It shows the spashscreen/bios, and then boots into system commander, and then 3 seconds later it starts to boot into XP, and that is then it restarts.
There is no windows xp loading screen, only a black screen directly before restarting.
Things tried.
-Figuring it could be due to something in XP being corrupted, I used a ubuntu (7.04) livecd to try and boot into that, but as soon as I selected start ubuntu, it went black and restarted.
-To check if it was a common hardware problem, I have removed everything from the pc besides 1 stick of ram, keyboard, monitor, mouse, and cd drive, but still it restarts.
-Browsing some other similar cases, many people suggest using the windows recovery console to try and fix it, but as soon as I try and boot off my win xp cd, the computer restarts.
PC Specs
XP + all latest updates (SP2 etc.)
512mb ram
80gb sata hdd
80gb ide hdd
avg free antivirus
zone alarm internet security suite
I really have no idea what is going on, and this just has me stumped, its like my computer crashes as soon as it trys to load anything bigger then system commander, or the ubuntu disk start menu.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
brent85