POSReady7x32 F8 Safe mode boot

I have just done a clean install of PoSReady7 32 bit.
No additional drivers or Windows updates installed.
OS boots to desktop ok.
However, when I press F8 and select a safe mode boot option, the OS boots as far as the Welcome screen with the animated circle. At this point it reboots! No error message displayed.
Does the same reboot when I use MSCONFIG to force a safe mode boot.
When I use MSCONFIG to force safe mode boot and also select F8 boot option 'Last known good configuration' then OS boots into safe mode ok.
Anyone got any ideas as to why I cannot get into safe mode by just selecting it from F8 boot menu?

Thanks for the suggestion.
The usual Windows boot menu is already being displayed ok when F8 is pressed before Windows OS starts loading.
Anyway, I entered 'bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu yes' which completed successfully but it hasn't stopped the OS from rebooting when I use the F8 safe boot option.

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First A Hearty Thank You
First of all, thank you all for helping me with my issues here( https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=50738&sid=&hilight=Bamaboy ). And thanks Bas for the heads up on the 1 Gig of RAM thing with Windows98. That's one possibility I hadn't even considered. (But it still seems strange that it would even go into safe-mode witth the 1gig, does it not? )
But A Whole New Gremlin Rises To Challenge Me
But now I have a whole new issue that may prevent me from even trying your suggestions from before. While experimenting on different ways to get my system running, I took off one of the front panel USB connectors and inserted the D-Bracket thingie, and the system booted once normally (well, normal meaning I could access the BIOS/Windows Safe mode, etc ). And after that, it won't boot at all!
*sigh*
How do I kill THIS Gremlin?
Does anyone have any idea what the problem could have been? I didn't smell anything fun, so I don't think anything fried, but I could be wrong. I've tried turning off and disconnecting the power supply, but nothing. The fan don't come on, and I don't hear anything powering up at all.
Any ideas?

Not sure exactly what I did to do the trick. I unplugged one of the front panel USB connectors as suggested, and I turned off and unplugged the PSU and restarted. And everything powered up! I still have no idea why this worked, but I'm not complaining.
Now I'm at least back to square one of trying to figure out how to get Win98 to load up.

Safe mode boot?

hello, i am trying to start photoshop CS6 in safe mode to solve some strange application behavior..Can someone give me instructions how to do it?

It's an interesting idea though. One issue might be screen resolution. Photoshop needs a minimum screen size in pixels, and you probably going to be looking at SVGA (according to your monitor's aspect ratio). You can give it a go though, and I think 1024 x 768 was the minumum spec for Photoshop so you might be OK.
F8 on boot is a common switch for Safe Mode with PC systems, but Google your particular hardware if that doesn't work. You may find you have to repeatedly hit F8 while starting the computer to hit the right moment.
Note: Your desktop icons might be scruched into a corner when you next start the computer normally after Safe Mode.

Boot issues with Win98. Safe Mode Boot only. Not all drives detected...

Hello guys! This is a great source of information and I've learned a TON browsing this place (on company time, hehe), but I've hit a road block that I can't maneuver around.
System Config
Neo K8T Neo Fisr mobo
Athlon64 3200+ CPU
1 Gig Kingston RAM
Ti4200 64 MB video card
520 Watt Antec Power Supply (after getting schooled by Bas's great posts on the importance of PSUs, I found out my lame-o 350 watt (!!!!) PSU, errr, ain't gonna quite cut it.)
Problem:
Windows98 won't boot all the way to normal mode. It only boots to safe mode. Apparently a driver issue?
Symptoms/Clues:
- Only detects my Western Digital harddrive (and only after some finegling)
- Wierdness with my 1.44 3.5" floppy (A:) drive. At first the BIOS would tell me the A: drive was there, regardless of whether it was plugged in. Then I plugged in the A: drive and Win98 in safe mode couldn't read from it. Right now, I don't have my A: drive connected and it's not in my Boot Order sequence (hard drive only for now).
- BIOS doesn't detect my new CD-ROM (SONY) drive at all. Note, this is a brand new drive that was NOT on my old system.
- I disabled the S.ATA controller. (This was confusing because there's an option to disable some SATA thing under an "Integrated Peripherals" menu. However, there's another setting to disable s SATA thing under a PCI Controller's menu. Seemed vague to me,, but then it's been a while since I've done this sort of thing.)
- I cleared the CMOS earlier because of wierdness were the system would hang on bootup and would ask me about starting a "Flash Recovery" process, upon which it would just sit there ( I left it running overnight once).
Call for help
Unfortunately I have no boot floppies, so I was hoping this was something I could fix without one, perhaps by changing some BIOS settings. Maybe it's a RealTek Boot Agent thing?
Any help is appreciated!
BamaBoy

Im running win 98se with no real problems, and its doing so well that I still dont even feel like trying anything else..........
I'd say RE-clear your c-mos , using the jumper, and unplugging the power for 5 seconds..... then reset your bios settings.......Also, maybe just reinstall the via 4-in1 chipset drivers...... I remember fiddling with some bios setttings before, like the acpi by os or by bios etc.... that helped.....but its been awhile......The great thing about 98 is that you CAN tweak so much.......
You can reinstall over itself also, which can help redetect the hardware, yyou should always have the 98 files on the hard drive so you dont need the floppy or cd...... So many things you can try....... Resolve yourself to trying as many as possible , its fun when you get it right........... My prob. is that I never remember what I did to fix stuff heheheheh.......good luck
ps, the "flash recovery" thingy has to do with the realtek ethernet lan thingy....which you should disable in its bios.....I forgot how to get to it, I think F11 or something like that while it shows when you are booting....Then it will still ask when you boot, but wwont hang......

Cant archive & install OR safe mode boot and finder is screwed

I will try and put this all in one post.
- Running a G5 dual processor. For some reason the thing has always taken overnight to repair permissions.
- Lately it only randomly sees DVDs, depending on it's mood.
- After installing 10.3.9 upgrade the finder is all screwed up. Takes half an hour after logging in to settle down. Web browsing and a couple of applications will work, but if you try and use the finder for anything it will give the spinning beachball forever. Even if you try and "save as" a simple text document that will happen, or if you just click on a file on the desktop to get info the beachball comes. It all seems to center around the finder.
- This does not happen when i log in on the "guest" account I made for guests at my house. (however, if you log in as a guest and then try to go to the hard drive to save the files on the other users desktop it will give the beachball as soon as it has to start "looking" over there)
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- Gave up and thought it would be easier to get Tiger, and simply archive and install, but it refuses to "see" the install disk for Tiger. It just spits it out.
- Tried starting in "safe mode" but it freezes the computer and then goes into airplane hanger mode and I have to shut down.
- Tried booting to the Tiger disk by holding down the "C" during boot, and it just spits out the disk.
- tried resetting pram
- Finally in desperation I thought I would just do an archive and install from the ORIGINAL powermac G5 disk 10.3, but after it begins to install it says there was an error and after trying again a couple of times the same error comes up.
- I CANNOT wipe the hard drive as the data is EXTREMELY valuable.
Any help MUCH appreciated.
Thanks

Hello all,
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So after reading more, and trying more, it seems I am screwed and am attempting to back everything i have up before wiping the hard drive completely and installing Tiger from the ground up.
Therefore I am changing the subject of this thread and simply asking what i need to do to preserve all my data, preferences, safari bookmarks, iCal dates, etc etc. I have to do this all manually because computer is barely stable at this point, running extremely slow taking hours at a time, and i'm sure cant use a backup program.

HELP! MacBook Pro 17" Won't Boot-Grey Screen-Errors During Verbose Safe Mode Boot

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I did disk check and repair even though it found no errors, and did verify and fix permissions since it showed a LOT of permission errors. Still won't boot into desktop though.
Ran safe mode verbose and got the following disk0s2 I/O Errors-What does this mean??? Hard drive problem?
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Is Western Digital no good? Best Buy has them in stock.....
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I'm Ubam, I have been using Macbook pro 500gb 5400-rpm hard drive, 4gb of 1333mhz DDR3 SDRAM, 2.4GHz dual core Intel core i5 processor; for 2yrs now.
The problem i'v encountered now is, I pressed the power button to shut down & it did, so now it won't start up, so I tried putting it on but everytime I press the power button it shows the screen light before login it then goes off, so I tried a "safe mode" by pressing the shift key, after that the Apple logo comes on & it has like that for 8hrs & I'm still waiting. Thanks

Hi ibiubam,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
The following article should help you sort out what might be preventing your MacBook from booting up.
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'Famous' blue screen at startup AND safe mode boot failure

Dear all,
Two days ago, after installing the new Java update/airport update and restarting, I encountered a 'blue screen' on startup after getting past the mac symbol and swirling cog. I cannot say whether the updates were the cause (doubtful) of if my cheap USB mouse that was still plugged it caused it or whether i have the dreaded 'bad sectors.' The cause aside, here is what i've tried to fix the issue:
1) Disk Utility - Verification (OK'd) and Repairs (fine)
2) Disk Utility - Verification of Permissions (a few needed to be done) All repaired
-blue screen-
-Restart after period-
3) Rebooting in safe mode, removing startup items from the login items settings menu
4) Removing startup items from System/Library/StartupItems folders
5) Remove airport extensions (recent - date modified in list view)
(NB - safe mode i could say my desktop perfectl in original form and all files!)
-Restart-
-no longer able to start in safe mode-
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6)Single User mode -
resetting preference files (loginwindow.plist and windowserver.plist)
Finally system profiler from Tiger DVD states:
*Permissions repaired
*Dependency errors: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily & com.apple.kernel.iokit no valid version found
*Integrity: kext has no receipt
I backed up most my data from the LAST crash, but recent music/1000 photos and others have been backed up altho i've been meaning to! Help!
I'M PANICKING now can no longer get in SAFE MODE!!
Please help Mac911!!!!
Charlie
G3 iBook 800mhz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Update:
So, I managed to do ALL that you said, EXCEPT, the reboot and work fine business.
I created the admin account which works fine. So now I can see three user accounts (looks like there as already an admin type one).
The one I created works fine, only, I can only access/see the login screen through a safe boot, (otherwise blue screens...) . I can get into the admin account fine, but when restarting and logging in as my original user account it won't boot. Something is very wrong in MY user account. I think at this point my data there is still retrievable somehow for a backup, clean start. but i haven't reached that point yet.
Anyone have any clues what migt have caused the error in my user login?
One of the things I tried (too hastily now i admit) first was to remove the recently added updates from the extensions folder. has this exacerbated the problem? Can i put them back without logging in as me??
remember from my first post system profiler says software/extensions integrity 'kext has no receipt' and dependency errors: 'com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily and com.apple.kernel.iokit; no valid version found' - whereas in my newly created admin account it appears AOK.
is this the source?
any ideas anyone?
sorry lots of queries here but i am ever hopeful.....
All yours,
Charlie
G3 iBook 800mhz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

My Mac Book Pro (2010 - Snow Leopard) won't boot, or boot from safe mode.

Hi, a bit of back ground knowledge bout the situation first, I was visiting home to see my family for two weeks in the UK, as i am currently on an internship in Dubai.
A few days ago (one day before i flew back to Dubai from the UK - Thursday 10/07/2014) I noticed out of the blue that my Mac book Pro (i believe early/mid 2010 model) suddenly started running extremely slow. (prior to this I had be using it fine, using an array of programs like Safari & Photoshop that i know usually slows down the Mac, but unlike what I would usually experience, this was pretty much a complete freeze for 5 minutes at a time every time i tried moving my mouse/closing a program or even clicking on something. I decided I would close everything and give the computer a rest. This took a long long time, I had to force quit many of the programs open, then once going to the drop down menu to shut down the laptop it wouldn't shut down. So after a long time of waiting to shut down I decided to force it to shut down by holding down the power button.
I left it for the evening, and then decided to turn on the laptop so it was 'on and working' for my flight back to Dubai as there had been 'stricter airport measures introduced in the UK for flights abroad' and there was a rumor that you had to prove that all electrical devices can be turned on when and if asked by airport security. after a long time it finally turned on and loaded the home screen, it had a long period on the grey apple screen with the turning gear. However still when turned on the problem of being extremely slow - freezing for 5 minutes every time i would click a program or something on the mac, like the drop down menu with the shut down option for example - still persisted. As I had to fly home the next morning (Friday 11/07/2014) I just closed the laptop lid like i had down thousands of times before over the past 3-4 years, packed it in my hand luggage and and went to bed. I flew back to Dubai.
Over the next few days (Saturday 11/07/2014 - Monday 14/07/2014) I used the laptop sparingly a it was super slow, but i did manage to watch the second half of the world cup runners up match between Holland & Brasil. I then went on to attempt to use the safari the on the Monday night, but it was too slow to really do anything, e.g. i couldn't even really look at the BBC website as it was too painfully slow!
This is when I decided to look up why it may be working so slow via my iphone.
So I shut it down,
I looked on forums and support ages and first thing they recommended was a 'safe mode boot up', so I decided to boot up in safe mode. This is where the problem seems to worsen. The Mac book pro would turn on to the grey apple screen and the progress bar appears, it begins to fill up but then reaches perhaps 20-30% then suddenly the laptops fan seems to go into over drive, making lots of noise when before this moment as it tried to boot up it was silent, then it just turns off.
I decided to retry booting up without holding down shift (safe boot mode), but it returns to the grey apple screen with the progress bar again, as if it was in safe mode even though I had held down shift. The same problem happens, its silent as the bar fills until abut 20-30% then it seems to 'overheat' and then turn off again.
I tried to boot it up again and again, both 'normally' without holding down shift, and 'safe mode', but the same issue arises.
So i turned to the forums and help pages again, and there was a mention of a PRAM reset. So i tried booting it up this time but holding down 'CMD + ALT + P + R' on the moment of the first chime, then as normal with a PRAM reset it chimed twice more before I let go of the keyboard. The progress bar again appeared on the grey start up apple page, and this time reached roughly the same 20-30% mark, but without overheating or making a fan noise, it then seemed to restart the progress bar a second time. This time as it reached the 20-30% it would again over heat and then instantly turn off.
I then decided to do a Hardware test. So i turned on the power and held down 'D', this successfully brought up the Hardware testing window, I did a regular test and within a few minutes it said there was no hard ware issue. Not convinced i decided to do an detailed/advanced hardware test which took alot longer. This time after a few minutes it started to make fan noises and 'overheating noises' however completed the hardware test and again said there was no hardware problems. I opted for the 'shut down' option on the screen instead of 'restart'.
I then decided to try and boot it up normally again, and the progress bar appears on the grey apple start up screen, it again reaches 20-30% then turns off.
I've exhausted my knowledge of what to do, and all the forums seem not to give the answer i'm looking for. It sees like no one has had the EXACT same problem i'm experiencing. Also being in Dubai for a further 7 weeks, I can't take the Mac book pro to an apple store, and I do not have any of the install DVD discs ect with me to try booting from DVD disc install.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me on what I could try next? I'd be hugely grateful! Please reply below or email me.

Some things you can try.
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Hi slee!
"...this happens on fresh (HD wiped) installs of both Tiger and Leopard."
Do you mean that, you did an Erase & Install of Tiger 10.4.x, and the PowerBook G4, won't successfully startup, and the same, if you do an Erase & Install of Leopard 10.5.x?
Have you successfully installed either of those versions on the PB G4 before?
Are you using a Full Retail Version, of the Tiger Install DVD, and a Full Retail Version Of Leopard.
Or are you using a Model Specific DVD, from another model of Mac?
If this is the type of disc, then that may explain the unsuccessful installation.
The discs should look exactly like the images in the above links, and not say Upgrade, CPU Drop-in DVD, or "This software is part of a hardware bundle purchase - not to be sold seperately." on them.
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Is there a difference between any of the Firefox settings in a normal boot as opposed to a boot in safe mode with networking?

I am trying to isolate an issue where I cannot load one particular web page - my local newspaper. The page heading comes up but none of the articles.
In a normal Boot this happens - if I start in Safe Mode with Networking the page is normal and loads correctly.
I was wondering if any part of Firefox is disabled during a Safe Mode boot which could be causing this issue. The website is
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Thanks Luis.
The only difference is the subscriptiion price for students and teachers.
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Hi, thanks in advance for taking the time to answer. First off I'm using an ASUS motherboard with UEFI bios on windows 7 64bit.
I'm having trouble with my user account being corrupted and cannot be logged into. I've already looked up how to fix this issue but it requires me logging into safe mode to do so.
I am aware of the 2 common methods people are prescribing (msconfig and F8) but neither are an option in this situation it seems.
Being that I can't log in, and I do not have a second admin account, I cannot use the msconfig method. I've already tried hitting F8 during start and it just gives me the option to either boot my HD or enter bios. I also went through the bios
options and didn't see anything there either. There's got to be another method than the two I've previously mentioned, right? Or am I just missing something simple here?
== edit ==
== Solved problem myself ==
heres how for those with same problem: after hard restarting my computer quite a few times (apparently its SUPPOSED to do this each time but other folks on the internet and myself find it to only work 40% or less) it went into automatic repair mode.
after that ran through, to no avail (BIG surprise), it allowed me to enter Command Prompt mode outside of windows. there I was able to enable a safe mode boot loop so each time my computer boots it automatically goes into safe mode. fixed what
i needed and undid the safe mode loop in msconfig.
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Asus boards BIOS Boot Menu key is F8... this is annoying if you use their boards with Windows installed, as it is also the key for getting the Windows boot menu.
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Can't boot into safe mode

I am running 10.6.7 on a RAID0 internal disk set. I am booting fine into it, but when I try to hold down Shift for Safe-mode boot, I get the little gray spinning circle, and then above it appears a gray circle with a line through it (line a "do not" road sign!) and then 20 minutes later, nothing - the little gray spinner is still spinning, and no progress bar for safe mode. What's going on?
thanks in advance,
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ryan42 wrote:
I guess we need to have a mirror of our startup volume in case anything happens.
One always needs a mirror of a RAID 0 set.
It's because the data path is split, the more drives, the more potential for total data failure.
Speed comes at a hefty price, a nightly auto-clone/updated backup and another clone on a single spindle.

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I wish i didnt have to use windows
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Sorry didnt answer other bits!
I'm on 10.6.8
I use reFit to boot into Windows so after my last time shutting down from Windows it did an update- since then when I go into windows i get the splash screen a pause then a flash of BSOD and the whole mac restarts (back to reFit menu!)
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I plugged in bootable USB (i installed from bootable USB originially also but the current USB im using I installed Windows 7 from onto a Dell no probs last week so its fine!) - went through F8 options on that too (booting into the USB windows via reFIt again) - but same issue!
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