Re: Unable to boot in Safe Mode

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From: Derek (Derek_at_UK.invalid)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:30:21 +0200

Thank you Kent, that solved my problem on my Acer Notebook. I was trying to
press F8 while the notification about F2 & F12 were on the screen. My
desktop (Dell) has a slightly different on screen presentation during
bootup, the F2 & F12 instruction doesn't appear and I press F8 after the
Adaptec SCSI loads. Hence the confusion on my part.
Again thank you Kent and Pavel for the assistance.
Derek Nicholson

"Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:Ojk7k2MXEHA.808@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Derek wrote:
>
> > Initially I thought that it might be the keyboard but as I said earlier,
I
> > use Fn+F8 to toggle on and off the sound to my speakers; This functions
> > normally, so presumably the F8 key does not have a mechanical
malfunction.
> > Also when I press either F2 (BIOS Setup) or F12 (Boot Menu) during the
> > power-up these functions operate normally.
>
> You need to wait for your BIOS to finish loading and just when the black
> Windows XP boot screen with the load bar animation appears that is when
> you start tapping F8 until your machine beeps. Then you should get a
> menu that allows you to select one of several Safe Modes.
>
> Tap vigorously. Start tapping even before the boot screen appears. You
> only have a few seconds.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security

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