I have a computer which would reboot two or three times a night. I updated the drivers as googled answer SUGGESTED, started blue screening once a night. Decided to reinstall XP pro. would blue screen at time when computer going to format disc.
I ran diagnostic programme on my hard drive all ok. I took out RAM 512 one at a time still no improvement.

Now Reinstall gets to when asked Install XP Repair XP or Exit If I choose Install or Repair all I GET is this at the bottom of screen

EXAMINING 152626 MB disc O at id O or bus O or si 3112r.

Can anyone HELP me to get this computer restarted by reinstalling XP Pro

Thank youWhat diagnostics did you run on that HDD ? ?I have a Western Digital HD and I went to their website and used theirs LIGHTNING something sorry I for got the name

HughMy Age-Old solution to that, would be to BOOT up the PC with my DOS utilities disk, (floppy, CD or Flash Drive) and run the dos FDISK command and remove the existing partitions so none are listed.
Then create a NEW partition or preferably two of them.

Then Reboot
then format each partition with the DOS Format.com command. That will not only format every sector on the drive, but will also verify the integrity of each one and block out any bad sectors.

When that's done, the disk will be ready to receive a new OS.
Oh, by the way, I always run XP on the Dos formatted FAT-32 hard drive.
It will run faster and give you absolute control over every file on the disk,
from a DOS boot disk. (Sorry, I'm just an old control freak!)

Problems on the disk are probably why XP won't load. A bad stick of ram will cause that too.

Good Luck,
Shadow Thank you
I tried taking out one stick of ram at a time (2x512) but it made no difference.
Thanks for the advise I will make up with a dos utilities disc.

Also could it possibly be the router causing this fault as I have three PCs working
from it one no problem at all this one I am posting for the other reboots for no reason occasionally,
this is how the first one started Router is a D-Link DSL-504G

Thank you

HughNo...
A router will not cause this issue.Try another hard drive.