[jhb] Re: Help!!
- From: "Paul Reynolds" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:58:15 +0100
Gerry,
If you're getting the boot device menu then you are hitting F8 a tad too
early. I have to wait until the POST (power on self test) has completed and
the boot device selected. In my case it's when the screen first goes blank
on boot up. If you get the boot menu, select the default drive then press
F8 again once it starts the boot sequence.
Another way (though not recommended), is to press the reset button during
the boot. This will initiate a soft reboot but should also cause windoze to
recognise an incomplete boot happened last time and bring up the menu to
allow safe mode start up to correct any potential errors that may have led
to the reset (it's not intelligent enough to know you caused it). This
method is not recommended because it might lead to data loss during the soft
reset.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Alex Barrett
Sent: 14 May 2007 18:47
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: Help!!
Gerry,
Lets stick with getting you into safe mode for the moment.
For me F8 also produces boot device list. However F10 gets me into the OS
selection menu, its a mobo thing. I don't keep mine but do you have your
manual to hand?
Or google your Mobo and see what pops up.
Alex
Gerry Winskill wrote:
Hi Alex,
I can see this is going to be a minefield!
First problem. Allegedly, when I press F8 during bootup, I should get the
message " Please select the operating system to start", at which point I
highlight SAFE Mode and press Enter. In fact F8 just produces a list of Boot
Devices:
1st Floppy Drive
HDD: PM-WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1
HDD: SM-WDC WD740GD-00FLCO
HDD:3M-WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSAO
IDE:LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165P6S
In fact it boots from the first HDD.
There's no mention of Safe mode.
Next I tried to run Driver Cleaner 3.
The list of Nvidia related entries is:
nForce Chipset
nVidia
nVidia Stereo
nVidia WDM
Since I've no idea wht they do I've not a clue as to which to "clean".
Sorry to be obtuse but I'm a long time member of the religeon.
Gerry Winskill
Alex Barrett wrote:
Hopefully this should sort you out Gerry.
However Drivers should always be removed from within Safe Mode only, you
might want to give that a try first:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/archive/index.php/t-19587.html
Alex
Gerry Winskill wrote:
I'm off for a walk, to give the grey cells time to recover.
THE 8800GTX card has just arrived. The first installation step is to remove
the existing drivers, via Control Panel. This I did but the screen looked
unchanged so I did a restart. It was still unchanged.
Going via the scree and Properties route I arrived at the drivers page and
opted to uninstal. It refused, on the grounds that the driver is required to
boot up the computer.
Any ideas folks?
BTW it weigh a ton and is going to be a tight fit.
Gerry Winskill
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http://www.turbinesoundstudios.com
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