A Windows 2003 machine may get stuck on a reboot loop. When booting the machine in SAFE mode, the boot process hangs on a file with name "ACPITABL.DAT".
Boot the machine into BIOS and make a change for the SATA from AHCI to IDE.
Save the changes, restart in normal mode and see if machine boots.
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