Vista Only Works in Safe Mode

[Guest]

Today I was starting up my Custom Vista computer bought of Ebay as usual.
When the progress bar with something like Microsoft Corporation under it
starts loading the log in screen showed up, it went from left to right as
usual, then stopped and froze. I restarted my PC using the button located on
the actual computer. Then it prompted me to go into Safe Mode or Normal Mode.
I went into normal mode and the same thing happened. I am now in Safe Mode
with Networking and dont know how to get to Full Mode without it freezing.
Please Help.

Derek

 

[Guest]

May I add I tried system restore.

 

[mikeyhsd]

might be a good reason why it was on ebay.

if you got the disks with it, try a repair/upgrade install.



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Today I was starting up my Custom Vista computer bought of Ebay as usual.
When the progress bar with something like Microsoft Corporation under it
starts loading the log in screen showed up, it went from left to right as
usual, then stopped and froze. I restarted my PC using the button located on
the actual computer. Then it prompted me to go into Safe Mode or Normal Mode.
I went into normal mode and the same thing happened. I am now in Safe Mode
with Networking and dont know how to get to Full Mode without it freezing.
Please Help.

Derek

 

[Guest]

Derek,
Whenever there's an unexpected shutdown/Blue Screen, the OS restarts and
automatically asks you if you want to perform a normal startup or go into
Safe Mode. As you probably know, when you go into safe mode, the OS doesn't
load all the hardware/software driver on the machine so you can run other
stuff like printers, DVD, webcam, etc. Obviously the seller go tired of
dealing with the problems and decided to sell it on ebay. Did you get the OS
disks with your system? If you didn't, you got ripped off. At least you could
have tried performing an OS repair or reinstall. This is not to say that it
would have resolved your problem. Vista still has some serious issues and it
will take some time before they correct them. I finally got tired of dealing
with the problems myself so I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP/Pro.
The Vista HD is still in my box and I plan to keep it there until MS releases
SP1 and the other companies put out better hardware/software drivers for the
OS.

 

[AJR]

Safe Mode boots no normal boot - indicatea a drover problem. Start ny going
Start>run>msconfig and clear startup items - if normal boot successful you
need to eliminate each startup item

Anothr option F8 and select boot log check bootlog.txt root directory one of
the last two entries is the culprit.

Regarding Vista and XP, the inital release of XP was no different than
Vista. Of interset - check (favorite post of mine) posts on the newsgroup
"microsoft.public.windowsxp.general" and compare to this newsgroup
(Vista.general) - the number of posts will equal or exceed those for
Vista - after SP2 and several years of XP.

 

[Guest]

could you explain that f8 option more? and i do not have the OS disks...so I
might have to buy them. I tried clearing the startup programs but that didnt
work either.

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[Guest]

If I purchase a brand new Windows Vista Business disc, would I be able to
still do this fix? Also, what if I bought Ultimate, would this fix still
work? And I guess Home Premium doesn't work with this because i've read it
doesnt include this feature.

 

[Guest]

I purchased the upgrade from frys. all worked fine until last night when it
crashed and now I can only open it in safe mode. I know your pain.