>Hi Jim.
>
>When you boot your machine, holding down F8, do you get the following option?
>
>"Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked)"
>
>Cheers.

That came up as an option, and I did try it once, but got the same result - Windows logo appeared briefly, then self-reboot.

Now, of course, I don't know it that has become the 'active' configuration or not. I assume not in this case, mainly because it didn't get very far before the self-reboot.

thanks