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Windows Vista Vista constantly reboots

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by msorgen3, 2008/09/26.

  1. 2008/09/26
    msorgen3

    msorgen3 Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have a compaq n610 with 768gb ram. I bought the full vista basic last night and installed it. This morning when I went to start it, it keeps rebooting itself. It runs up until I see the Vista screen and then it reboots.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    If and when you get this laptop running - you'll hate it due to not having much in the way of ram. Do you plan on upgrading that?
     
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    msorgen3 Inactive Thread Starter

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    I was told that the max was 1gb I have 768mb
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    That would be the max that the machine can deal with. Vista will take all the ram you throw at it...But hang tight and maybe someone will come along and help with the reboot issue.
     
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    I think you were told it had 1gb installed. That is the specs of that machine and correct. Your figure of 768 mbs is what you have left to play with after essential services have grabbed a little.
    Can you boot into safe mode?
    If so, open the Control Panel (Classic view). - System - Advanced System settings (on the far left) - Click the Advanced Tab and select Startup and recovery.
    Untick the item halfway down on the left to Automatically restart. (Hopefully you will find it is, at the moment, ticked)
    You may now find you can startup and find the problem. If not, then you have a hardware or driver malfunction.
     
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    Evan Omo

    Evan Omo Computer Support Technician Staff

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    Also, if the machine is constantly rebooting, enter safe mode and run a check disk on the harddrive to make sure the drive isn't bad. To do this Click Start> Computer. Right click your harddrive and click properties. Click the Tools tab. Under where it says error checking click the button the says check now. Check both options after another window comes up and click start. Let check disk run and see if it finds any errors.
     
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    msorgen3

    msorgen3 Inactive Thread Starter

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    That was it!!!
    Thank you

    I just want to state that all I have on my laptop is 768. 512 stick and 256 stick.
    I am wondering if I could buy two 1gb sticks.
     
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    davehc

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    I think not. The machine will support 2 x 512. Hardly worth the expense.
     
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    I let it go to sleep and this morning it won't boot up fully. It goes for maybe 30 seconds and then shuts itself off. I tried going into safe mode but it stops there too. One other thing I noticed is that with the battery in, I can't turn it on at all. With it out, it turns on.
    I can understand why with the battery out it works, but the battery is 50% charged or so it shows on the screen yesterday.
     
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