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post #1 of 3
5/26/04 at 3:02am
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Hello,

I am having a slight problem, first off, when I shut it down last night, I must confess I was tired and ( with no windows open or any other programs running, beside what runs in the background) I just held down the power button untill it shut off.

Today, when I went to start it up, it gets to the point just before the "welcome screen" and reboots bringing up the boot to safe mode options, if I choose boot to safe mode, it fills the screen with a command lines and after about a minute .... reboots and ends up at the boot options screen again, long story short, boot to network, same, boot to command prompt, same, boot to last known good configuration, same thing......

Any suggestions, guess I wil try the restore disk next??
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post #2 of 3
5/31/04 at 7:29am
Sounds like a primary windows file was being access when you shut it down... possibly the registry.
The screen full of text when booting in anything other than 'normal' is normal... this is just showing you what is happening in the background normally. This is also creating a log file as it progresses, so if you've got the know hoe you can find it and where the log stop you will see the probable error (the file or reg setting) loading that is corrupt. That said it is probably just easier to do a reinstall of XP... breath easy, this will not return it to as new state but should keep all your original setting/software. You may find some changes or progs that need reinstall but on the whole as it was. No promises though!
Note: With APM you can set what the power button does on a click (pressed for less than 5 sec)... mine hibernates the system.
That said... best of luck... I've been there...
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post #3 of 3
5/31/04 at 7:39am
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thanks mattman & everyone else, for your help. I believe your are correct and have since reinstalled without losing anything,
life is once again good!
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