Re: Safe Mode

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:17:48 -0700

Mike wrote:

> Somehow my PC (XP Home) was shut down suddenly - I expect
> someone in the family hit on/off switch on the surge
> protector accidently. The problem I have is when I turn
> the PC on is cycles through the bios then kicks over to a
> blue screen which informs me that the computer
> experienced an unexpected loss of power is doing a
> recommended scan disk or system scan of which it gives me
> a count down of about 10 seconds to abort by pressing any
> key. After running the scan it displays the volume of
> each drive then it kicks over to a black screen. This is
> the screen I would normally get if I pressed F8 during
> start up. It gives the choice to continue with "normal
> start up" or choose from three others choices by using
> the down or up arrows. The problems is while counts down
> 30 seconds for me to make my choice none of the keys on
> the key board work! So it counts down the 30 seconds and
> tries to boot in "normal mode". I get the XP logo and
> the scrolling green bar and then the system shuts down by
> itself and restarts the whole process. No matter what I
> do I can't get it to boot other than in "normal mode". I
> let the PC run through this cycle for over two hours last
> night on its own before shutting it down. WHAT CAN I
> DO!!!!

Is your keyboard usb? If so, connect a regular ps/2 keyboard to the
computer and try that way. If you already have a ps/2 keyboard, the
connector may have been damaged by the power surge. Try a usb keyboard
in that case, making sure that Legacy USB is enabled in the BIOS.

Malke 

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