Cannot boot into Safe Mode on XP Pro!

spinstorm · 18 Feb 2007 at 18:43

I have been trying to boot XP Pro into Safe Mode and it just will not load into Safe Mode.

I press F8 and get it to give me the option of safe mode but it just resets itself and says windows did not start properly.

No matter how many times I try it will not go into safe mode!

I have an Asus P5B which I believe may be faulty but which I have not been able to prove to the PC shop that installed it for me! It seems to randomly reset but NOT when the PC shop look at it - could this be a motherboard issue stopping me going into safemode? (in which case I finally have proof its faulty!) and if that isn't it then what is causing this problem?

wormvortex · 18 Feb 2007 at 19:41

I had the same problem and fixed it by writing a new mbr using the xp repair console.

spinstorm · 18 Feb 2007 at 23:13

What do you mean by a new mbr?

Are you saying I should run windows setup and ask it to repair XP? and that should fix it?

bledd · 19 Feb 2007 at 09:16

yes, follow this

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx?mfr=true

then when you've logged in in recovery mode to your windows install (will all be in command prompt) type fixmbr

might fix it, might not (shouldn't make things worse though!)