tdaughenbaugh@hugoschools.com

lol, well. I am the consultant. I can swap out brand new parts if need be. I work for a school district. But switching out 4 HDD's is costly and I'm trying to avoid that. I already know its the HDD because I switched it out with a known working one and the machine booted just fine. The machines aren't under warrenty unfortunatly. They are at least 3 or 4 years old.(P3's 733MHz) Anyways. Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Well, I tried switching out the powersupplies, that didn't work either . Any other suggestion? Thanks

I will try switching out the powersupply. All 4 of the computers have the exact same re-boot problem, so I've been "experimenting" on just one machine in hopes that if I find the problem with this one machine it will be the exact same problem as the other 3 machines. I also failed to mention that I had switched out the RAM on this one machine, as well as I had done a full deletion of the partion, and full re-installation of XP. (sorry, I've been working on this problem for about a week off and on, so I didn't remember everything I had done) Thanks very much for your feedback!! I will try the powersupply.

I have a problem with 4 identicle xp machines rebooting on start-up. In one of the machines I've replaced MB, CPU and HDD. When I had replaced the HDD with another one out of a fully working identicle machine it worked fine, so obviosly the HDD is the problem. From recovery console I have run both fixmbr and fixboot a number of times. I've also re-installed xp a number of times prier to running the recovery console. If anybody has any suggestion or tips, please let me know, I would be very greatful!!Thanks