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
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*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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Turbine Sound Studios
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