Safe Mode Where is it, Please?

[Guest]

Hi,

Stop Error Screen mentions Safe Mode and in Memory to Disable Caching and
Shadowing. But I've entered BIOS many times and never can find Safe Mode.

Where is Safe Mode, please?

 

[Edwin vMierlo]

You can enter Safe Mode by pressing F8 _just_ before Windows loads

HTH,
_Edwin.

 

[Guest]

When I do that and hold down on F8 my machine just beeps rapidly. So, then I
always release and then WindowsXP loads as usual.

Jean

You can enter Safe Mode by pressing F8 _just_ before Windows loads

HTH,
_Edwin.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Boot your pc and as it boots keep tapping the F8 key until the safe mode
menu appears.

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[James Jones]

dont release.........BEFORE you get the





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keep pressing F8..........

Boot your pc and as it boots keep tapping the F8 key until the safe mode
menu appears.

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[Guest]

OK. I'll try that. Thank You, Much.
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Thank you,
Jean

Boot your pc and as it boots keep tapping the F8 key until the safe mode
menu appears.

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[HeyBub]

When I do that and hold down on F8 my machine just beeps rapidly. So,
then I always release and then WindowsXP loads as usual.

Safe mode is not in the BIOS.

Think: "... suddenly there came a tapping, as if someone gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my
chamber door. Only this and nothing more. What should I do, I wonder, Abort,
retry, ignore?"

Or think CPR: "Push, release, push, release, push, release (deep breath
here), push, release...."

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Safe mode is not in the BIOS.

Think: "... suddenly there came a tapping, as if someone gently
rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered,
'tapping at my chamber door. Only this and nothing more. What should
I do, I wonder, Abort, retry, ignore?"

"Ah distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak November ..."

Biermanoski should note that the BIOS is not part of Windows. It's
effectively part of the computer's hardware and, to modify its settings, it
has to be entered before Windows even starts to boot. As HeyBub says, Safe
mode has nothing to do with this; it is a mode that Windows can run in.

You need to press F8 at exactly the right time, after the opportunity to
enter the BIOS, and just as Windows begins to load. It's a very short window
of opporunity, and it's hard to know exactly when to do it, so the easiest
thing to do is just continually tap the F8 key when you start the computer.
If you tap about twice a second or so, one of those taps will occur at the
right time.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

"Ah distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak November ..."

Sorry. I didn't remember that distinctly. It's December, not November.