How do you get your computer out of Safe Mode?

[corarose]

I need a computer so bad but I can't afford one right now. This piece of garbage keeps crashing and I lost my Mystery Shopping job because I couldn't type my reports in on time this last week.

My computer has put itself in safe mode and I don't know how to get it out.
I can't reinstall everything because I don't have the main disk and Emachine no longer carries it.

Can someone please help me I don't have the funds for another computer right now. How do I get it out of safe mode?

[Hawkeye-X]

1. FYI EMachines are a piece of shit

Remanants of Packard-Bell years.

I hated working with E-machines that several clients has.

To get out of safe mode, when rebooting, hit F8 and go to Normal Mode.

Make sure you don't have a virus (get a virus scan program and update it with the latest definition - a MUST - The MS Blaster virus reboots computers constantly with RPC problems)

Hawkeye-X

[Padraig18]

4. Free AV software

If you can't afford to buy an anti-virus program now, go to http://www.grisoft.com and download AVG. It's completely free and it's caught everything my Norton has, and a few things Norton didn't. :)

Good luck!

[XanaDUer]

2. Can you reboot it?

Is it staying in safe mode constantly?

[corarose]

9. I can reboot it but it keeps coming on in the safe mode

I hate emachine and I knew this computer was garbage when I first used it but it's all I got right now so I have to make due.

Everytime it comes on it tells me something about someone else is on the networking system.

[XanaDUer]

10. Go into your control panel

look for "system" , click on the system icon, then look to open the "device manager", then "network adapters", and look for a network device controller.

Then select to disable that device. It sounds like your system thinks it's on a network, but it's not.

It may also have to do with your "internet options" setting.

[FlashHarry]

3. What operating system are you using?

Win98? If so, just as it boots, try hitting ESC (or it could be f8) to give you a boot menu. Choose the normal startup. That should get you out of safe mode.

[MrScorpio]

5. Buy a Mac

You have that problem

[Don_G]

6. PM Me

:hi:

[corarose]

7. Thanks guys!

I know this computer is a piece of shit. My other computer was stolen at my last apt. and this piece of junk is running on Windows 98.

I use to own a Packard Hell and at the time it cost me major bucks. Before that I owned an IBM that was the same price as a new car.

This is junk but I don't have any money to purchase another one right now.

I am still looking for the place that use to advertise computers that you could buy through your checking account and they took the payments out each month. They had name brand computers and they cost about $120.00 per month.

[LTR]

11. Scan the classifieds or used computer stores

You can often find decent 2-5 year old computers dirt cheap.

Often well under $300.

[yellowdog]

12. Go to

www.peoplepc.com. You can get a new computer for $24.95 a month and that includes dial-up internet access. I am on my second peoplepc computer, a Gateway 500X, and I love it.

[RobertSeattle]

8. I believe you need to delete the file "ashcroft.exe"

:evilgrin:

[loathesomeshrub]

13. Here's what you need to do

My old one does the same thing sometimes. I go into the control panel and remove things like the monitor, and any unknown components, and when it restarts, it finds everything again and restarts correctly. Sorry, I have another computer now which doesn't appear to have the same things. I think I had some items which had some kind of problem working together. I got really frustrated until I came up with this solution somehow. It doesn't do it so much now.

[FDRrocks]

14. E-Machines :(

I bought my gf a 1.7 ghz E-Machines for 600 plus warrantee last October. God I hope it doesn't come to this, she needs it for school. :(

Does it automaticaly boot up to safe mode? I thought you had to choose that option upon startup each time.

[corarose]

15. For the last 4 hours I have been trying everything but nothing is working

When I turn this computer off and back on it jumps right into safe mode.
I have tried everything and I looked on my A drive for files with new dates and I didn't see anything new.
Does anyone know what kind of a file that I would be looking for if it were a bug? What extension would it have on the end of it?

Thanks guys.

[lpbk2713]

16. Did you ever install anti-virus software?

And if so do you have a set of "Rescue Disks"? They are disks that you are prompted to create when you set up your A/V software so that you can have something to fall back on. If not, did you perhaps upgrade a version of Windows? Same scenario. If you have any sort of recent backup disks it's worth a try.

[FireHeart]

21. This may sound odd, but this happened to me.

The computer kept itself in safe mode every time I booted it. I was grasping at straws trying to figure out what happened--and I finally did. It was a stuck key. When your computer boots, if there is a certain keypress(es) it will automatically boot into safe mode--EVERY time.

Also...why are you trying to boot your computer with a disk in drive A: ? Outside of a rescue disk or some other floppy required situation, that's not advisable.

[einsteins stein]

17. Important Question - Does it Actually Say "SAFE MODE" in the 4 corners?

Your computer may only look like it is in Safe Mode.

Let's start there, and then go forward.

[einsteins stein]

19. Corarose, are you there? /nt

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

18. Go to the START menu, then hit RUN and

type in MSCONFIG

When the utility comes up, there is a check box setting somewhere in it for Safe Mode. I can't recall exactly where (I use XP, and its MSCONFIG is a bit differently organized). It should be somewhere on the first page. Just find it and uncheck it.

If you're brave, you can also browse the c: root directory for a hidden system file called MSDOS.SYS It's a read-only file, so you will have to right-click on it in Explorer, and uncheck the read-only setting. Then open it in a text editor and look for a SafeMode= line. If it does not exist, then add this on a separate line: SafeMode=0 (That's a zero). Save the file and reboot. (Oh yeah, before you operate on this file, be sure to save a copy to a floppy.)

On edit: I forgot to add that to even SEE a hidden file, you have to go into Windows Explorer, browse to the root directory, then go to TOOLS, then FOLDER OPTIONS, then VIEW, then check SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

20. Correcting my own advice

In Win98 there is no setting for Safe Mode inside the MSCONFIG utility. There is, however, a setting that tells Windows to start normally (see illustration). There is also a setting that activates a boot menu, which also allows you to select a normal start (also illustrated) by using your up/down arrows on the keyboard.



Also note the separate illustration that shows how MSDOS.SYS should be edited.