M105-S322 Boot Problem

Hey People,

I have a Toshiba M105-S322 and am having issues when booting. To preface, my computer had completely locked up and I pressed the power button for 10 seconds and it shut down.

After powering the laptop, it goes to the normal boot screen and loads all the way upto the Windows XP loading screen but when trying to goto the logon screen it briefly shows a BSOD error and then immediately restarts. It has done this now for about 5 times or so and I'm wondering what the problem might be...Perhaps it's fried RAM?..Thanks for all your help!

 

Your other thread in the lenovo forum got closed so I'll reply to you here.

If it's consistently crashing in the same place, I'd suspect less fried ram and more corrupted OS.

It would be helpful if you could get some detail from the BSOD, even if it just flashes momentarily.

I would suggest doing a repair installation from the Windows XP cd and see where that gets you.

 

If you mash F8 while starting up, it should bring you to a menu with a whole bunch of startup options. There should be an option to disable automatic restart after system failure, highlight it and press enter. It won't give you a confirmation but you'll find out if it worked when you try to boot again, if you BSOD, copy down all information on the screen and then we can help you out a bit more.