I can't boot into safe mode.

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ryan nutwell

When I try to boot into safe mode, lots of text shows on my screen
saying that it's loading drivers and such. Then it gets to a line
saying that it is loading "giveio.sys" and under it for a second shows
"Press ESC to cancel loading STMP.sys" or something along those lines.
I have tried pressing escape to cancel that, and also letting it load.
Either way it stops there, I can see my HDD light on my case blinking,
but even if I leave my machine on and try to let it work (I've tried
for 20 minutes, I know sometimes it can take a while) and nothing
happened. I have also tried manually adding a safe mode option to the
boot.ini file and tried to boot with that option. That gets me a
seemingly lower resolution Windows "Flag" screen. But it doesn't bring
up XP. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if I can assist you
by giving more information.
 
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bojimbo26

When I try to boot into safe mode, lots of text shows on my screen
saying that it's loading drivers and such. Then it gets to a line
saying that it is loading "giveio.sys" and under it for a second shows
"Press ESC to cancel loading STMP.sys" or something along those lines.
I have tried pressing escape to cancel that, and also letting it load.
Either way it stops there, I can see my HDD light on my case blinking,
but even if I leave my machine on and try to let it work (I've tried
for 20 minutes, I know sometimes it can take a while) and nothing
happened. I have also tried manually adding a safe mode option to the
boot.ini file and tried to boot with that option. That gets me a
seemingly lower resolution Windows "Flag" screen. But it doesn't bring
up XP. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if I can assist you
by giving more information.
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Why are you trying to boot into safe mode ?
 
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AJR

Not much info regarding need to use Safe Mode - Do instructions to load the
drive suggest Safe Mode? If you tried installing via normal mode what was
the result - shut down - error, etc.? Have you considered System Restore? or
repair option ia the XP CD (not Recovery Console).
 
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ryan nutwell

AJR said:
Not much info regarding need to use Safe Mode - Do instructions to load the
drive suggest Safe Mode? If you tried installing via normal mode what was
the result - shut down - error, etc.? Have you considered System Restore? or
repair option ia the XP CD (not Recovery Console).
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The reason I am trying to do it in safe mode is because in the help
file at their site, it suggests installing it in safe mode if the
driver will not load otherwise.
 
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bojimbo26

That worked perfectly, thanks. I didn't even need to
uninstall/reinstall ProtoWall. I just uninstalled the driver and
reinstalled it from c:\protowall.

But is it still possible to get any input on why I can't get into safe
mode? Just the fact that it won't boot annoys me. I like to have
everything working as it should.
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Now that the system is working , have you tried safe mode ? - it could
be that the *error* was stopping safe mode loading .
 
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ryan nutwell

Now that the system is working , have you tried safe mode ? - it could
be that the *error* was stopping safe mode loading .
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I haven't tried yet, but when I do I'll post back and let you know
what's up.
 

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