HELP!!! comp keeps rebooting :(

So 2 days ago i was bored and decided to install vista. so i installed vista on my d: drive. and since it was taking a long time installing i fell asleep and left the laptop cooler on in case it got hot. so i woke up and the screen was blank. and when i rebooted the comp itll go past the asus flash thingie and then itll go to the blinking underscore and then itll reboot again. over and over again. so i used the asus recovery discs and after i went thru the whole process and it says u can take out the driver disk and click ok to restart, it went back to restarting over and over again. i have no idea what to do. also the beginning asus flash thing does not look like how it used to. the animation stops with the asus symbol white, like if the animation stopped prematurely. i tried to use some backup xp cd's but my w3j's supermulti has trouble reading almost everything including this. any help would be appreciated.

cliffs: computer keeps rebooting, recovery disks did not solve problem.

 

Boot from the XP CD and go to the recovery console and type : "fixmbr"
this should do the trick.

 

for some reason i can only get it to read the recovery disk cds. ill keep trying

 

can't get it to read the xp cd this is so frustrating, thx anyway muj.

 

hmm it worked when i loaded my win2000 cd, can i do fixmbr on that?

 

yup just use it to get into the recovery console and fixmbr and check the boot settings too

 

alrite i got it to run fixmbr, it said are u sure, i typed y and pressed enter. said new master boot record has been written. what do i do now? use recovery disks again? or do a new xp installation.

 

ah, i think all is well now guys. thanks for everything