Anytime I restart by clicking restart on the start menu or when a program wants to restart, vista will reboot and and just loop in a reboot mode constantly until I press the power button on my computer and turn in off that way and then when I turn it back on it's fine and boots into windows. Usually I just tell the comp to shutdown and then press the power buttton to turn it back on but this gets tiresome some times. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi!! Anything to do with this????? 'Endless reboot' comes to an end | Vista Home

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Celestra

No thats not it, it wasn't becuase of an update it does it the moment after I install Vista and if an app wants to restart or I click retsart, vista shuts down and reboots the comp but right before displaying the loading page it will reboot the computer again and agin and agin unless i press the power buttton and shutdown that way and then power it back up. I have to click shutdown or tell an app not to restart the computer to avoid the problem

Shucks....it sounds so much like that problem, even XP's have endless rebooting with BSOD, these days. I have an idea- If the SAM file is deleted away the computer will be unable to start-up. Try this: Fix Deleted SAM File Causing Windows Vista Unable to Boot Error » Tip and Trick

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Celestra

Have you tried using the 'Repair' function utilising the os disk?

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Yes I tried the repair function and that didn't work

hmm...bugger, oh well, thinking caps back on!

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Just in case: How to Open Windows Vista Recovery Environment (RE) Console from Installation CD » Tip and Trick This is where we really have to know your system specs, because of things like this: Stop error when you try to restart a Windows PE 2.0 system that uses AMD Barcelona processor and that has the Operating System Capabilities (_OSC) method enabled in the BIOS: "STOP: 0x0000007B (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE)"

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Celestra

If I remember right I had that same problem with win98 one time but I can't remember what it was....I'm gettin' old.

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FATBOY

Hey, he doesn't say what he's using, could be that bad......

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Celestra