Computer illerate here, please help!!
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Computer illerate here, please help!!
Abbynormal | Sunday, September 01, 2002 - 01:39 am     This has nothing to do with BB3 but I do know alot of you out there know alot about computers. Here is my problem: I can not get my computer out of safe mode. I am running win98. I have tried the hitting F8 which brings me to the pick a number screen like 1 is for normal and so on. I have picked 1 and it goes right back into safe mode again. I followed all the troubleshooting advice but it only has tips on how to get INTO safe mode, not OUT. Does anyone out there have a clue? Oh yeah, none of my device managers are showing a problem and system says everything is running fine. I don't have a clue and it is so hard to read anything, so I am going blind, but hanging in there! TIA |
Draheid | Sunday, September 01, 2002 - 10:31 am     Abbynormal: My guess would be that something you recently installed or updated has corrupted your system causing it to be unable to startup normally. What you'll need to determine what you installed last that might be causing the problem and uninstall that program while in safe mode. If it was some driver update, you would need to 'downgrade' that driver to get back to normal mode. There is a program you can use to disable a few things in the startup sequence before rebooting that might also help. Click on Start then Run and type MSCONFIG in the run window and press ENTER. Look through the various screens in MSCONFIG and see if you see anything that looks like it might have been added recently or doesn't belong. You can disable a few things there, then reboot and see if you can get back to normal mode. If this works, it could tell you what needs to be changed or removed. Note: This program wasn't on all versions of Windows/9x but I believe it was introduced on Win/98. Microsoft's site has a lot of information on how to resolve conflicts that cause the safe-mode boot problem. I hope this information helps, but if not, try going to the Microsoft site and search through the Knowledgebase articles there for more help. Good luck! |
Abbynormal | Sunday, September 01, 2002 - 11:39 pm     Dradeid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are my hero!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok first, just let me say thank you so much. I appreciate that you took the time to answer my question. It's funny because I had done the MSCONFIG thing BUT missed clicking on the correct box. As soon as I did that everything went back to normal. Everything was working properly anyway, it just wouldn't let me resize or change my settings. Everything was huge and the color was terrible. Again thank you so much. I know to someone who knows about computers this was probably simple, but to me it was huge (and ruining my BB fun) and I thank you for helping me out. Have a good Labor Day!! |
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