I cannot boot my pc without using safe mode wtf is going on?

Question

It started a couple of days ago, the screen would freeze and now I cannot boot at all without using safe mode, I have an old pc running sp2 and cannot afford to replace anything, I also have a nvida fx5200 card

Answer 1

Hello,

(ANS) I'm an experienced windows user and I would diagnose a damaged or corrupted driver, possibly a damaged or corrupted display (graphics driver, video driver). Another possibility is a damaged or corrupted windows XP registery or setting/s in the registry.

**NOTE: You could definately try the following, which is called the loading the last known good. **reboot the machine and immediately after the windows logo appears press the F8 key, this should bring up a DOS like screen in black & white, with a variety of options on it.

Now look for the windows XP "last known good" option and select this, press return on this option, the machine will reboot and should load the last undamaged XP registry and if this works the machine should load up as normal and all should be OK once again. If this is successful I suggest you make good quality backup's of your entire system & data for future safety sakes.

Hope that works for you!!

Best Regards
IR

Answer 2

Safe mode starts with just basic drivers and things so there is something wrong that doesn't start in safe mode. Did you install anything before this happened? If so try uninstalling it.

Ideal way would be to reformat the PC and reinstall windows.

If you don't want to do that try using system restore to rollback to a previous state.

Also try doing start > run > sfc /scannow , this will scan windows system files and replace any faulty ones.

In safe mode go in to hardware manager and uninstall the graphics card, reboot and it should reinstall the graphics card, if this doesn't work try uninstalling other devices and doing the same. This will reinstall any drivers for the devices

Answer 3

you are able to also attempt to disable centers in "msconfig". study the "cover all Microsoft centers" field. Then uncheck whichever centers you do now no longer come to a decision for loaded at commence up. you are able to also attempt and evaluate for viruses and malware using any of the loose coaching accessible (Avast, AVG, secret agent bot search for and damage, Malwarebytes). also receive ccleaner and do a clean up of your pc and registry. i'd then defrag your puzzling rigidity. i take advantage of defraggler, yet you should apply window's defragging software or whichever of the diverse defragging softwares accessible. If those steps do now no longer velocity up boot time/pc than both you've an previous pc or there is a few thing more suitable severe with the pc. in which a reformat would nicely be acceptable.

Answer 4

You could try selecting setup when you're computer is loading up. You have about 12 secs after you turn it on to enter the setup mode. I think the button is delete but it should say somewhere as it's loading and somewhere in the setup menu there are options for how your system should run. Be careful though, selecting the wrong thing could cause problems. If it doesn't look right, don't select it.

Answer 5

not suggested yet, but may be a hardware problem also (hopefully not )

If above suggestions do not help, try booting machine with all Hardware devices disconnected, dvd drives, secondary hard drives, internal modems, ram etc,

try booting, if this is successfull, adding one device at a time.

Good luck.

Answer 6

This could be virus or software related..scan for viruses while in safemode,then also try a restore point earlier when things worked ok..

Answer 7

it could be that there is not enough ram for it to start so you need to have it looked at in some were like PC world.

hope this helps,
good luck