Dell Inspiron E1505, Continuous restart cycle, help appreciated.

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Last Night my Laptop started a continuous restart cycle, Ill turn it on, and it will come up with the windows was not shutdown properly screen( which it was the time before this happened), and I launch startup repair at which point it comes up with the launch windows normally screen or put into safe mode.  I select launch normally and it goes through the basics, comes up to the login screen where i input my password,( which it normally bypasses this and loads right up).  I enter it and it seems like its gonna boot up but then loads to a black screen with the pointer cursor, it sits here for about five minutes before a quick blue screen comes up and it reboots itself starting the process again. It did this before about two weeks ago, but after about five tries it fixed itself, it has been about 20 times now of me shutting it off, trying different approaches.  I tried to call the help line but unfortunately my warrenty is expired.  Anyone help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.   Thank you.      -Matt

Mary G · Answer

You need to disable Auto Reboot by following the directions HERE.  That will give you time to do some diagnostics to figure out what the problem might be--bad software, hardware or drivers, damaged system files, etc. Check the System Event Viewer for clues. You can boot to your xp disk and try a repair if you find it's a system files problem.

CPWrestling724 · Answer

Thanks for the reply Mary, I will attempt to do what you said, although I would have no idea how to figure out what the problem was, the only thing i can think is that right before i shut it down last when it was working i downloaded a few songs off of limewire and transfered them to itunes.

ejn63 · Answer

Rapid reboots are often a symptom of a failed hard drive - press F12 at load time, and boot to the Dell diagnostics and run an extended test.

CPWrestling724 · Answer

I ran the diagnostics test and it came up with this message..    error code 200-0142..... masg unit-0..status byte=79... Any thoughs on this??

ejn63 · Answer

Yep, the drive is faulty -replace it with a new one and reload everything.

CPWrestling724 · Answer

will do, can i reload the driver from the driver disk that came with the system, or am i gonna have to back up everything and completely reinstall

ejn63 · Answer

The new drive will come completely blank, so you'll need to reload everything. If you don't have a backup of the data on the drive, buy a 2.5" SATA USB 2.0 drive case, mount the faulty drive in it and attach it to a working system to see what you can read.

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