Re: Safe Mode won't run

Sorry Darrell, my fault, didnt mean to cause you any panic. Glad you got
it running using Go Back. Somehow I thought you could always tap F8 and
choose Normal Boot mode
and it would override the checked box in msconfig. Well, I learned
something as well.
Again sorry it had to be at your expense.
"Panic" <smartwit@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uDEGYrk7HHA.2476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have Win XP SP2 that is working fine. For some reason I can no longer
boot into Safe mode. I click on F8, choose Safe Mode and it shows devices
loading, then the Starting Windows comes up with a large mouse cursor the
way it does in Safe Mode, then the screen shows black with the Safe Mode
legend showing at top and bottom but then it stops and does a reboot.

Of course if I allow the reboot to continue without interference it boots
into normal Win XP mode. A few days ago a Safe Mode boot stopped before
it completed due to a power outage. Perhaps this screwed up my capability
to boot into Safe Mode?

Darrell R. Schmidt
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