cf-73 constantly rebooting

I have a cf-73 that i'm trying to put winxp on and it loads up the cd and sets up the drive and formats the drive. now here is where things go hairy, insteading of booting into windows to install the OS it just goes back to the intitial menu where you choose to install or repair XP. I am pretty sure the drive is good because I plucked it out of a another computer and it was working fine. and the drive seems fine too. Not really sure what's going on, any help would be appreciated

Dan

P.S. - It will not boot through the Win2k recovery cds at all, runs some kind of error, don't remember what the error was but I'll try it again here in a bit and let ya'll know what happened with it.

 

Either a bad optical drive or your XP cd is scratched... - either of those two things can cause this.

What it is actually doing is bluescreening and re-booting right away (not enough time to see the error unless you have a high speed camera)

 

I'm not seeing it run any errors, i might need a hi-speed camera, but it's just doing the normal reboot after it formats for winxp. I will try another disc, if that doesn't work can I boot from a flash drive or something?

 

flash drive boot is unlikely - at that point you would want to do a net boot with PXE - that is - if you have a server to do it ... Or you can ship it to me and I can load it up for you.

 

damn now I have to find my USB dvd drive.

 

Just my two cents. Did you check the ram?



ohlip

 

Well the cd didn't seem to be scratched and the drive works fine. ram checked out ok. I'm pretty baffled on what's going on so I just put the hard drive in a 29 and put xp on it and then back into the 73 and threw the drivers on it. So all is good now, too bad the 73 won't talk to me and tell me what the $#%! it was doing.

Dan

 

If the HDD was pre-partitioned previously, try deleting everything and redo the partitioning process again. Thankfully, I experienced this problem only once and got to install the OS before I fling the HDD out the 24th floor window.

 

thanks but everything seems to work fine no so I don't wanna screw something else up by trying again.

 

Ah... so the question remains, what did you do different this time to get it working?

 

I put the hard drive in a different machine and restored XP onto it and then put it back in the 73 and put all the drivers and crap on it. So I'm kinda leaning toward a bad optical drive since the hard drive works fine now. Just need to try to run some cds to confirm that. Anyone have an ideas on what else it could have been since all works fine now?

RAM tested good btw Teo

Dan

 

Did ya check the FOAD chip?



mnem
Time for Timer...

 

Didn't I say that in the first response to your question? "Either a bad optical drive or..."

 

yes you did and thats why I just gave up on loading XP through the optical drive on that computer thank you rob for saving me some trouble.

mnem - we all know there is no Fetal Origins of Adult Disease chips in the 73, they only put that in the 18s

 

Dan -

Sorry; you're a bit too new to remember this gem from the Golden Days of the ToughBook Forum; look here...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3007343

It eventually did become a running gag; several of the regulars have hit me with it myself...

mnem
*Fires up the WayBack Machine*

 

I'm a bet challenge with the problem you had. First and second the cf-29 and then now the cf-73. I wish I can visit your place and check all of your stuff.


ohlip

 

mnem, I had people pull the foad chip gag on me when I worked with automated building controls, except they didn't tell me that they were messing with me for a whole day. I was really pissed, but now that I look back at it, I laugh alot.

ohlip - we have alot of cool stuff roaming around at my office but I have even more cool junk at my house stacked in my garage. Mostly desktop pieces because I used to customize them for my buddies. I actually have 2 towers right next to me with cratered motherboards because we overclocked them and the cpu fan took a dump. PPOOOFFF big cloud of smoke. I was actually really cool because it wasn't my money that was lost

Dan

 

Ahhhh... That FOAD chip... I've had a few with that installed! They are a bear!

 

Ssh! Did you hear that? He called you a n00b....

 

I did hear that but coming from Mnem I do not mind a bit.

Better than falling for the ID.10-T error.

Dan

 

Dude... You asked a legit question... You weren't mistaking your CD Rom as a cupholder or asking where the "Any Key" was...

 

Haha... indeed. I do use my worn xp cds as coasters in my office though I don't like the ring marks on my new desk

 

Heh... at least we didn't call him a (L)User...

mnem <~~~PEBKAC ERROR waiting to happen~~~*