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oooVooo

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November 10th, 2008 07:00

PC restarts when a CD/DVD is opened/played!!

When i insert a CD or DVD of any kind, it either just restarts or some times an error comes up and THEN it re-starts (I think the error is only linked to running *.exe ie; installing games).

 

 

This is one of the errors, i looked around on the net and i think its different depending what program it is, but the issue is the same....

SlamX

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November 12th, 2008 09:00

What version windows? May try a repair install of XP or do a repair if its Vista.

oooVooo

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November 16th, 2008 12:00

I have Windows XP, downgraded from Vista, the CD drive worked at the beginning.



Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSparks View Post
Go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Startup & Recovery>Settings and uncheck "Automatically restart". The next time it happens you'll most likely get a Stop error, which is much easier to troubleshoot. Post back what it says. If it still continues to reboot after that then it points to a hardware problem.

I took off "Automatically restart". but all that happens is, all my programs start crashing 1 by 1 and it never loads the *.dll files from the windows XP CD, even if i keep pressing "retry", then after a bit of clicking retry, the 'blue screen of death comes up' so i just have to restart PC anyway...

I think i could do a windows repair through the boot menu using the windows CD. but the recovery console keeps asking me for a password and it does not exist... it did the same thing when i was downgrading from Vista, but i managed to sort it out through Regedit;

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole
Set the DWORD SecurityLevel value to 1"


but i tried changing the value again and it just didn't work this time...

sorry for long post... cheers for all the help.

PS; doing it in safe mode has the same effect... re-start...


regedit screen shot of what i had, the second key was made by me, a desperate attempt to get it to work...












http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g83/wolverin38/regedit.jpg

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