re: Only starts in Safe Mode Friday, May 25, 2007 at 1:08 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by dhm (990 messages posted) Just today (literally!) I had that happen to me. I was tinkering with my BIOS overclocking and my video refresh rate. Anyway I managed to invalidate my video driver. Trying to reset the driver with the Hardware Manager did nothing. I had to go to the C:\Program Files\nVidia folder and run setup.exe again. I might've had to remove the driver and reboot. The point is that if a driver (or some invisible settings) that Win98 depends on has become corrupted, Win98 may only be able to take you to safe mode. So go if Gewg's suggestion doesn't fix it, then try some sessions of uninstalling and reinstalling drivers one at a time. So in direct answer to your question, "Yes. I think it's hardware. Maybe. Sort of. Well, the drivers, anyway. I guess." Good luck. On Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:01 pm, anu wrote: >Thanks. I'll try it. But you don't think it is hardware? > > > Written in response to: re: Only starts in Safe Mode (anu: Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:01 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Shutting down before booting to Desktop (anu: Fri, May 25, 2007, 9:52 am) Only starts in Safe Mode (gewg_: Fri, May 25, 2007, 10:52 am) re: Only starts in Safe Mode (anu: Fri, May 25, 2007, 12:01 pm) re: Only starts in Safe Mode (dhm: Fri, May 25, 2007, 1:08 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum