Windows won't boot normally - only safemode

16-07-2005, 16:06

I havn't a clue what has happened. I restarted my PC since it had been on all night, and when it started back up the box that states what it's doing, such as "Preparing network connections" etc comes up, doesn't say anything, and the bar doesn't move. It just sits there, and with no disk activity. It doesn't do this in safemode though (which I am currently using with network support).

I've just started on doing spyware/virus scans to see if something has infected me

Any other ideas of what could have happened?

I'm running Windows 2000 Pro, fully patched on SP4.

Stuart · 16-07-2005, 16:11

Can you access "Safe mode with networking"? If you can, it's not the network card?

Have you installed or updated any device drivers recently? If so, try uninstalling them.

16-07-2005, 16:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuart C

Can you access "Safe mode with networking"? If you can, it's not the network card?

Have you installed or updated any device drivers recently? If so, try uninstalling them.

I'm currently on "Safe mode with networking", the drivers I updated were my graphics drivers, will unistall them after the scans.

MovedGoalPosts · 16-07-2005, 16:15

You've been changing your graphics cards around a lot recently. I'd be suspicious of combinations of drivers there.

You've not got scandisk or anything like that set to run on rebooting. I had that onceand got very confused why a PC took over an hour to start up.

Jon M · 16-07-2005, 16:24

If you have an nvidia card, try this: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=582
It shows you what version each driver related file is and allows you to selectively remove them.

16-07-2005, 16:40

It was the drivers. At least ATI's 5.7 drivers have the ability to remove completely everything ATI related from the system, it's working fine now.

But strangely enough, my sound card got unistalled at the same time