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| Thread ID: 43803 | 2004-03-27 08:13:00 | Win98SE opening in safe mode ?! | rdee (1809) | Press F1 |
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| 225487 | 2004-03-27 08:13:00 | HI again.I have a acer laptop with win98SE & IE6.I have formatted my hard drive & used windows update to load it up to the latest.The pc now boots up to SAFE MODE every time.Any ideas on why.I am sure one of the programs I downloaded has caused the problem-but -how to fix it.cheers rdee | rdee (1809) | ||
| 225488 | 2004-03-27 08:26:00 | Start - run - msconfig - advanced - untick, enable start up menu. Courtesy of Tweak. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 225489 | 2004-03-27 08:54:00 | You got me all excited peter h - but unfortunately it did not work.it was unticked but i tried both thankyou rdee | rdee (1809) | ||
| 225490 | 2004-03-27 10:03:00 | Just confirming it is safemode. Does it have "safe mode" written in each corner? Just that if the graphics driver stuffs up, it can be the basic windows driver and it looks like safe mode. (probably same driver). |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 225491 | 2004-03-27 11:50:00 | The Computer Always Starts in Safe Mode support.microsoft.com |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 225492 | 2004-03-28 05:27:00 | hi,pheonix-there is no 'safe mode'in each corner but I guessed it was because the main page is 'low colour'& it all looks like safe mode type windows. I followed that link whiskeytangofoxtrot-but I could not even find the 'msdos.sys' file on the 'find' program. very frustrated rdee |
rdee (1809) | ||
| 225493 | 2004-03-28 05:36:00 | >hi,pheonix-there is no 'safe mode'in each corner you need to install your video card drivers. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 225494 | 2004-03-28 05:38:00 | If it hasn't got "Safe Mode" in the corners, then it isn't Safe Mode. As Phoenix said, it sounds in that case like you are missing a graphics driver, or have some settings incorrect. Try going to Control Panel --> Display --> Advanced and checking that your colour settings are up above 256 colours. Also have a look in Device Manager (Control Panel --> System --> Device Manager) and see if your video card (display adapter) appears to have drivers installed. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 225495 | 2004-03-28 09:04:00 | Hi rdee, it is as the others have said, you are actually in windows correctly, it just looks bad. If you right click "my computer" and choose properties from the menu that pops up. Click on the Device manager tab. Look down the list and click on the + next to display adaptor. This will tell you what type of video card you have, note it down. Now highlight it and down the bottom, click on the "remove" button. Restart your PC and let windows re-detect the video card. Nine times out of ten , this fixes the problem. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 225496 | 2004-03-28 23:09:00 | HI Folks,wow getting tricky-I removed & reinstalled Graphics driver-'standard PCI graphics adapter vga' sorry no luck. i have 16 colours & cannot change it.I changed to 256 colours yesterday but it would not accept it. i have no 'colour profile'showing ? cheers rdee |
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