O/S Windows XP Pro. BIOS Version K7VM4 BIOS P2.10. AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 512 mb.
After a power cut had to run the repair with xp disc. all went well then went to Microsoft for updates, installing SP2 (nightmare) got a couple of error messages not too concerned as all to do with outlook which I dont use. Now the PC keeps shutting down and rebooting. Tried to start up in safe mode (f8) but still getting black screen with "safe mode" in the 4 corners of screen? the goes black again and reboots. If I leave it on it just keeps hanging and rebooting. After SP2 downloading got error 0x8007007f faled to load c\windows\system32\catsrv.dll. I googled this but then had to go to work. my daughter tried to reboot to disk to do the repair again and it was letting her, then she said it just went off.. starting to reboot again on and off....I switched it on this morning and its doing the same, black screen, windows xp logo.. hen hangs and reboots.. can get to f8 but doesnt make any difference which mode its booted in, and also i saw a error screen pop up really fast.. took me six attempts just to read something about virtual memory? cant catch it all as its too quick. What can I do to resolve this, its really doing my head in!! The PC is 4 years old, i would really like to dump it andmaybe look at gettin another but the kids have got too much data (which they havent backed up) on it..... any help would be appreciated. My house is dirty as I have spent all my time tring to resolve this nightmare ..................