Can't start in safe mode Monday, February 2, 2009 at 3:34 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Peter (243 messages posted) I have a custom computer, XP with SP3 installed and it's running perfectly.I wanted to run a virus check in safe mode but when I rebooted and pressed F8 everything progressed as normal until I got a black screen with a list of files.After this nothing happened, this screen simply remained.I tried resetting msconfig to selective startup but got the same result.Yet the computer started perfectly into normal mode.Google has not been any help here , hope someone can shed some light! Responses to this message: re: Can't start in safe mode (William Mowbray: Monday, February 2, 2009 at 4:17 am) re: Can't start in safe mode (Gilzean: Monday, February 2, 2009 at 5:00 am) re: Can't start in safe mode (Scott: Monday, February 2, 2009 at 9:52 am) More details (Peter: Monday, February 2, 2009 at 10:39 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Can't start in safe mode (Peter: Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 3:34 am) re: Can't start in safe mode (William Mowbray: Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 4:17 am) re: Can't start in safe mode (Gilzean: Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 5:00 am) re: Can't start in safe mode (Peter: Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 6:41 am) re: Can't start in safe mode (Scott: Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 9:52 am) More details (Peter: Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 10:39 am) re: More details (Johnb33: Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 12:12 pm) re: More details (Peter: Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 7:08 am) re: More details (Johnb33: Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 11:23 am) re: More details (Johnb33: Tue, Feb 3, 2009, 11:31 am) re: More details (Peter: Sun, Feb 8, 2009, 9:25 am) re: More details (Scott: Mon, Feb 2, 2009, 12:17 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 XP Discussion Forum