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Let me make this short. HP N3410. AMD K6-2 550 MHz. 160 Mb RAM, 8 Mb dedicated to video.
Press the power button. Boots into Windows XP, SP1. Gets to the logon screen. I put my password in, it begins to load. Shows the desktop for 5 seconds, then reboots. Safe mode does the same thing. It's not the battery, since I have it plugged in at the time. Any suggestions?

May very well be the memory...

my guess would also be memory, make sure memory is seated properly, if you have the option try a different stick. If you have more then one installed, boot only with one then switch around. See if problem persists.

You sure your AC is working? Will it boot with the batterie removed?

Unplug network cable before rebooting.

I don't think it has anything to do with hardware. It's an OS issue. RAM problems don't generally cause reboots - and not at the same place in the boot process.

There's a registry corruption issue that will cause this. You might try using this technique to manually reset your registry, then go into safe mode to use system restore: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

Hope this helps...

Well you could rule out memory quickly with memtest86. It also gives the processor a fair amount of work but won't catch all problems a processor could have.