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Posted by S.Sengupta on May 18, 2008, 3:25 am
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regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
S.Sengupta wrote:
> I saw this here:-
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/fixing_the_xp_sp3_reboot_blues
>
> Does it help?
>
> regards,
> S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
>
> knittycat1 wrote:
>
>> I have an Acer notebook (Aspire 5102) with an AMD Turion core. It runs
>> XP Media Center Edition (2005 ~ was installed on machine when
>> purchased in Nov '06). I downloaded SP 3 Tuesday pm before I knew of
>> the issues with the AMD processors.
>>
>> My problem now is that I can't reboot in safe mode. When I get to the
>> Windows Advanced Options Menu and chose Safe Mode I am told to select
>> the operating system and XP Media Center is the only choice so I hit
>> enter. (Safe Mode appears in the bottom right of the screen at this
>> point).
>>
>> Once I hit enter, I get a scroll through a list that reads
>> "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS\system32/DRIVER\ {lots of
>> different file names appear with *.sys extensions}"
>> Then the screen goes black and the Windows XP startup screen comes on
>> and the machine unsuccessfully tries to start XP. It just keeps going
>> through the unsuccessful reboot loop.
>>
>> Any suggestions? I think I could follow the directions to fix the SP 3
>> problem if I could just start in safe mode. I love my laptop and am
>> pretty distraught as I have a paper due in two weeks.
>> Thanks for reading.
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