pc restarts itself

[garyblokeuk]

god i seem to be having lots of probs at the mo! i had a virus cmd32 which i got off kazaa. I deleted the files and wiped it off. But everytime i restarted the pc it said windows could not locate the cmd32 file. So to get rid of this i repaired xp. After this had finished the pc now consontly restarts itsself on booting at the same point every time. ive tryed repairing it 3 times. checking temps. but to no avail

i am running xp home with 512 ddr 333 ram and a athlon 2.4 ghz. I have also tryed moving the ram to another slot.

any ideas? i dont reallly want to format the h/d and lose all my files

[gooner]

Can you access Windows? and how did you remove the virus?

[TierraDelFuego]

sounds like a windows, i.e software error, rather than hardware. try booting into safe mode and running your AV again. if you have another h/d then backup your data, or buy a cheap 40gb etc, then reinstall.

[garyblokeuk]

no i cant get into windows at all. ive tryed running it in safe mode and the last known good configaration nut it does the same. i used avast antivirus to delete the file. it happened after i tryed repairing xo.



cheeers

[garyblokeuk]

could i install windows over the top and then make a backup of the harddrive and then reformat it. I know there is a facility in nero tobackup the h/d

cheers

[TierraDelFuego]

worth a shot as i can't see any other way without a 2nd hard drive

[garyblokeuk]

could i try repairing the other op system(the mucked one) from the new op system i have put on as i can still acsess my old files from c drive? is there any programs 2 fix the registry? as i think this is where i deleted the virus files.

cheers

[lhys09915]

have you run check disk from startup with the xp cd?

chkdsk \r
chkdsk \p