Acer rebooting - please help

[scotcruz]

Hi all,

I have an acer 5742 and recently it has started to keep rebooting on me. I am trying to figure out what is going on.

Symptoms: hit the power button and the laptop comes on for a few seconds then shuts itself down and keeps doing this in a loop.

The laptop worked fine this morning. I have tried scandisk and also the windows dvd to repair boot but still no luck.

Please advise

[haribo]

does it do the same with safe mode?

[scotcruz]

does it do the same with safe mode?

it doesnt let me go that far. As soon as the Acer Bios screen shows up, it reboots..

[stevieboy10]

it doesnt let me go that far. As soon as the Acer Bios screen shows up, it reboots..

at bios hit f8 until you get the menu for safe mode, boot into safe mode with networking and restore system to last know working configuration. if the problem persists remove the hard drive and try to boot with another if possible. sounds like a fault in your hdd.

[cunny]

Use hirens boot cd and doba chkdsk /r this should bring it out the loop

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[Cod3waX]

pull the hdd and see if the laptop loads the motherboard

[scotcruz]

Pulled the HDD, still no luck... Gonna try hirens after downloading it... Been reading loads about boot loop..