Dell Inspiron 1525 Auto Reboots

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First off I just installed linux lite and have no experience with linux.
My original post was about not being able to connect wirelessly but after multiple updates the problem has fixed itself.

Since that's no longer the problem, I moved topic here to "Start up and Shutdown".

Now the problem I have is everytime I reboot I get stuck in an auto reboot cycle.
I get to the instruction page telling me to do updates first but before I can update the computer shuts down and restarts.

I have to turn it off mid boot to get to a repair screen and I use the repair features to rewrite everything and then it boots up with no problems.
I use advanced options then recovery mode and then update boot loader.
It runs through the scans and I can barely make out a fail on starting smb(but it restarts too fast to write down the rest.

but once it reboots now I am fine.

As others have asked, did you confirm that the md5sum of the downloaded LL ISO file matched the one shown on the download page?

Since it sounds like you could eventually get it booted up, did you then install updates?  (Menu -> Install Updates.)  If not, do that and see if problem resolves itself.

If still have problem after running updates and you have confirmed that md5sum did match, open a terminal and enter the following two commands:

Code:

cat /var/log/dmesg | tail -n 20
inxi -Fxz

Follow instructions shown on this post to copy/paste the terminal output back here for us to see.  Hopefully that will give us some clue as to what's going on with your boot problem.