Re: Starting in regular mode

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Shenan Stanley wrote: 
Echy wrote:

I have recently acquired an Asus notebook L1400 series running
Windows XP Professional. It is a PIII, 256 MB RAM, 10 GB free HD
space. HD is partitioned into two 10 GB drives. No viruses or
malware evident - all anti virus, anti malware programs up to date
and run regularly.. Use Zone Alarm firewall. CCleaner used to clean
up rubbish, careful check done for any rogue programs starting up.
Defrag. run regularly..
I can only get the computer to start in Safe Mode, whenever I try to
start it normally, it starts up, shows the XP Professional splash
screen, there is some hard disk activity for about 30 seconds and
then nothing except a regular hard disk activity light flash. every
two or three seconds

The computer always starts with the same user name who has full
rights. I cannot switch to administrator as I do not have the
password and previous owner is unknown - notebook purchased at
auction.
Any help to get me into normal mode greatly appreciated.


First - boot into Safwe Mode and remove the Video Card driver and the Network driver and reboot - see if it boots then.

If not - you may be better off performing a repair installation.

 How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
 http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341


Many, many thanks for your great help.

Success! Removing the video card driver and the network driver did not work. However completing the XP Repair Install did and combined with reinstalling the VGA driver from the Asus driver disk all is OK again.

The notebook now boots and runs beautifully.

Thank you so much for your much valued advice.

Regards
Echy
Melbourne Australia
www.thatsmelbourne.com.au
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