Freezing in Safe-Mode?

Soldato
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Hi all

Very confusing problem. I've been trying to do some cleaning/scanning in safe-mode as I do regularly, but I have ran into a problem. The PC will randomly freeze up and I have to restart.

At first I thought it was Nod32 causing the problem, but I left that to do other things and it appears it's just the system in general. Sometimes it won't get past the logon prompt, whereas other times it will go for a good 15 minutes before randomly locking up.

Now the confusing thing is, in Windows normally I've had zero problems. I can run multiple apps, or AV scans and have not one problem. I am infact scanning with Nod32 now and all is well. :confused: Again, gaming and so forth are all fine. No crashing or BSOD's.

I would have thought if I had a system problem (perhaps due to an overclock) it would freeze more so when in Windows; not safe-mode. Also safe-mode loads only the required drivers, so I can't see how it's freezing???

Any ideas would be appreciated but it's a weird one. Just seems to be safe-mode?!
 
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