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re: Can't start in safe mode Monday, February 2, 2009 at 4:17 am Posted by William Mowbray (87 messages posted) When you say you get a black screen with a "list of files", are you sure they are not a list of OPTIONS? One should be Start in Safe Mode and you select it by using the Arrow Keys and Press Enter. That should start you up in Safe Mode. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't start in safe mode Monday, February 2, 2009 at 5:00 am Posted by Gilzean (635 messages posted) Peter, are you sure that you waited long enough after 'until I got a black screen with a list of files. After this nothing happened' This is normal and it might stop at that point for a while Sorry if this is toooooo obvious, but you didn't mention how long you waited Too old to die young [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't start in safe mode Monday, February 2, 2009 at 6:41 am Posted by Peter (243 messages posted) I waited several minutes , perhaps a quarter to half an hour. The HDD light was showing activity. In fact it showed the screen full of files three times. clearing in between and then reloading before sticking. I always used to be able to start in Safe mode but haven't tried since installing SP3. On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 5:00 am, Gilzean wrote: >Peter, are you sure that you waited long enough after >'until I got a black screen with a list of files. After this nothing happened' >This is normal and it might stop at that point for a while >Sorry if this is toooooo obvious, but you didn't mention how long you waited > Too old >to die young [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't start in safe mode Monday, February 2, 2009 at 9:52 am Posted by Scott (28 messages posted) Greetings re: Need booting virus software to start computer Monday, February 2, 2009 at 6:51 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve (19814 messages posted) This one made by kaspersky http://dnl-eu10.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/ Thanks for your assistance! On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 3:34 am, Peter wrote: >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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] More details Monday, February 2, 2009 at 10:39 am Posted by Peter (243 messages posted) I just tried again and got the same result.The final line on the screen read; multi(0)disk(0)rdsk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\giveio.sys When I restarted the computer it loaded perfectly though a folder ATI.ACE was open on the screen. Hope these provide clues to somebody! On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 3:34 am, Peter wrote: >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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: More details Monday, February 2, 2009 at 12:12 pm Posted by Johnb33 (1807 messages posted) That file is associated with Speedfan, do you have it installed? Uninstall it temporarily and see if that fixes the problem On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 10:39 am, Peter wrote: >I just tried again and got the same result.The final line on the screen read; >multi(0)disk(0)rdsk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\giveio.sys > >When I restarted the computer it loaded perfectly though a folder ATI.ACE was open >on the screen. >Hope these provide clues to somebody! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: More details Monday, February 2, 2009 at 12:17 pm Posted by Scott (28 messages posted) Greetings My question next to this has a great link to get bootable antivirus iso image that when burned can remove the virus we have... here are a few more sites... However, there are a few sites I can confirm that have bootable CD's with preloaded anti-virus software, here is a short list of the ones I know about: http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html http://www.freedrweb.com/livecd/ http://www.f-secure.com/linux-weblog/2008/06/ http://www.kaspersky.com/removaltools I got these from frisco_ranger... a software seller on ebay Thanks for your assistance! On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 10:39 am, Peter wrote: >I just tried again and got the same result.The final line on the screen read; >multi(0)disk(0)rdsk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\giveio.sys > >When I restarted the computer it loaded perfectly though a folder ATI.ACE was open >on the screen. >Hope these provide clues to somebody! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: More details Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 7:08 am Posted by Peter (243 messages posted) Thanks. I uninstalled Speedfan and now the last file on the screen is Mup.sys There IS a lot of information about this problem.Clearly it's a setting or some minor thing because it only affects startup in Safe mode , normal starting up is fine (except that in the last few days it opens the ATI.ACE folder.But I can't seem to sort it out. On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 12:12 pm, Johnb33 wrote: >That file is associated with Speedfan, do you have it installed? Uninstall it temporarily >and see if that fixes the problem > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: More details Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 11:23 am Posted by Johnb33 (1807 messages posted) As far as ATI.ACE folder appearing on bootup, you have an entry in msconfig that doesn't have quotation marks around the entry. You need to edit the registry file. The entry should read "c:\windows\ati.ace". Look in this registry key for that entry and just place quotation marks around it. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run As far as Mup.sys goes you will just have to search online and try all suggestions to get it to work. On Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 7:08 am, Peter wrote: >Thanks. I uninstalled Speedfan and now the last file on the screen is Mup.sys >There IS a lot of information about this problem.Clearly it's a setting or some minor >thing because it only affects startup in Safe mode , normal starting up is fine (except >that in the last few days it opens the ATI.ACE folder.But I can't seem to sort it >out. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: More details Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 11:31 am Posted by Johnb33 (1807 messages posted) Or something familiar to that. Not sure what exact directory its in. On Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 11:23 am, Johnb33 wrote: >As far as ATI.ACE folder appearing on bootup, you have an entry in msconfig that >doesn't have quotation marks around the entry. You need to edit the registry file. > The entry should read "c:\windows\ati.ace". Look in this registry key for that >entry and just place quotation marks around it. > >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run > >As far as Mup.sys goes you will just have to search online and try all suggestions >to get it to work. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: More details Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 9:25 am Posted by Peter (243 messages posted) Thanks. In fact I disabled it using Startup CPL. I tried booting into Safe Mode yesterday and it was successful for some reason.It didn't recognise my webcam though and wanted to load drivers for it.I simply unplugged the USB lead and then put it back and everything was fine. Thanks to all those who contributed. On Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 11:23 am, Johnb33 wrote: >As far as ATI.ACE folder appearing on bootup, you have an entry in msconfig that >doesn't have quotation marks around the entry. You need to edit the registry file. > The entry should read "c:\windows\ati.ace". Look in this registry key for that >entry and just place quotation marks around it. > >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run > >As far as Mup.sys goes you will just have to search online and try all suggestions >to get it to work. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum