southmp3plus Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 Hello, my computer is stuck in a reboot loop. i have an intel pentium 4 desktop computer. it is windows xp home edition. the problem happened after i installed the windows service package 2 (i know, im a little behind). it seemed to install the update fine but after i restarted my computer i couldnt seem to get to my desktop. the computer manages to get to the light blue windows xp loading screen but instead of entering my desktop the computer reboots and the whole process starts over again. after reading other forums, i tried the F8 method but couldnt seem to make it work. last known configuration and safe mode dont seem to work but i may have not done them correctly; im no computer whiz. but after pressing the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 Microsoft safemode instructions state If your computer has a single operating system installed, press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you'll need to try again by waiting until the Windows logon prompt appears, and then shutting down and restarting your computer. If you can't get F8 to work you have a problem, do you still have the original XP disk ? Also your thread seems to have come to a premature end " but after pressing the " What ? What did you press and what if anything did it achieve ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southmp3plus Posted December 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 thanks a lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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