Ok, been looking everywhere to try and get this resolved. Not sure if I'm posting it in the right area, but I'll try anyway.

Shut down my computer, and when trying to reload it I got the screen where you select what mode to start in (as if the last time you shut down you shut down improperly). No matter what mode I select, it brings up the Windows XP load screen and then kicks it back to restart the computer and brings up the selection screen again. It continues this constant loop, and I have been told by someone I know who checked it out that I have a boot virus.

I'm trying to figure out what I can do to solve this problem, if there is any boot disk I could download to bypass this so I can get in and do a sweep or even just to be able to get in and save files onto a CD so I can do a clean OS reinstall. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Doug

nope ...
a bootvirus is something different ..
as name says ... it rewrites the boot sector so you are no longer able to boot, but you are even though the loading stops - the boot works ...

now it can have various reasons why you windows no longer boots ...
1. virus
2. hardware
3. bad driver
4. corrupt file - maybe corrupt harddisk
or just a bad setting ...

a virus I would think least ... but you can check this ... mom
http://www.fprot.org/
here you can get a virus scanner for DOS ...
but you don't need to waste time here ...
I am pretty much sure you just killed your windows ... or something killed your windows ...
just backup your files and reinstall ....
also instead of using the DOS scanner you can also take ur disk to a friends PC and connect it there for scanning / backup ...
I would recommend http://www.kaspersky.com KAV5Personal
just take some time ...do a fresh install and install SP2 RC2 just after installing it for maximum pleasure ... I can only recommend it

have you tried using F8 at boot to go into safe mode or last known good configuration? Also, you can take another hard drive and install an OS on it and use it to get anything you want off the other, or if your current HD is partitioned install an OS in one of the other partitions and do the same thing.
You can also take a knoppix disc and boot from that and pull everything off the non-booting HD using that and a burner. Make sure you run knoppix toram at the knippix boot screen to free up the burner (if you have one)...

try loading the windows bootcd, go into the recovery console and use the command "fixmbr" on your primary boot partition(c.
it might fix it.
theres also a few other tools- type help to see availible commands.

unfortunately have learned the hard way a few times that rewriting the MBR on a partitioned HD can make everything on it inaccessible if things go wrong. Try running the Windows install disc as a repair instead of a fresh install. If it loads beyond 33% you're "golden"...

you could also try to boot from th xp cd, press "R" to repair using the recovery console and type chkdsk /r at the prompt.

Sometimes it works

It is usually a good fix for the "Unmountable Boot Volume" issue

Tonezone

That could easily be a hardware problem.

Power supply is the number one suspect. Much less likely is a ram problem, have you been tweaking, overclcocking at all?

Try reseating and/or swapping out the ram after youve tested or preferably swapped out the PS. Hopefully you have some parts laying around or another computer to borrow from.

This is my first post here, HI!

brut7

just thought of these: have you tried increasing the RAM voltage, proc voltage and/or changing memory timings? (after trying a different p/s that is...)