Satellite Pro A200 boots in Safe mode only

Sat A200 pro will only boot in safe mode.
When trying any other it gets to the windows XP sceen with the rolling bar then after a few seconds the HDD light goes out and the screen goes black.
Only way out is to turn off.
Have tried system point restore. Before I do a full restore from backups is there any thing I've missed or can do to save my self several hours of restoring and updating.
Thank
dave
AKA Veg-man

Hmm dont think that you missed something
You said that the internal screen goes black after Win OS has booted up maybe the display output has been set to external monitor?
In such case the Fn + F5 should help you to switch back to the internal screen.
Did you check this? If not, do that!

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I have a macbook pro 15-inch, Early 2011 running osx 10.9.4. I have a SSD hard drive that i installed myself a year ago and hasn't shown any defects. Its a 120 gb OCZ-AGILITY3.
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Kernel Version: Darwin 13.3.0
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Battery
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Not posted on here before, but am desperate so hoping there are some experts out there who can help...
I have 13" Macbook pro which has ceased to work properly - it runs very slowly and will only boot in safe mode.
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          Perian 3rd-Party support link
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Time Machine:
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          Mobile backups: OFF
          Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
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               1%          EtreCheck
               1%          WindowServer
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Hi,
I have a grey screen and grey rotating wheel startup probs. I have tried repairing with the disk utility, resetting PRAM, booting in safe mode (which gave a subset of the errors that 'disk repair' did- namely- 'invalid sibling link,invalid record count, invalid node structure, invalid key length) and finally trying to get to archive&install the o/s, but it cannot find the destination volume. Is an erase the only option? PS I have backed up most files individually, but my daughter did not back up any from her user account. Any help would be appreciated. J

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Hello,
I am a newer, and need help!
I have Toshiba Satellite A105-S4211 laptop. My kid used it for a year, and told me the Window XP operating system could not be normally launched up. I tested it. This laptop only can be started at safe mode. I used following method try to fix it. but it still works at safe mode only:
1. Replaced memory.
2. Replaced hard drive.
3. format hard drive, and reinstall Toshiba recovery disk--> could not install completed, fail at latest step.
4. format hard drive, and install Window XP professional SP2 --> fail at latest step also.
5. lauched at safe mode, and use command chkdsk to check disk. finsihed checked disk and ask me to use command "chkdsk /f" at next start up because some file is used. I reply "Yes", and restart laptop, it still going to safe mode.
6. One of my friend told me this maybe the video card of this laptop is out of work because it only works at low resolution. I have no idea.
7. I read some error messages at the process of launch. such as error at address 0x00000005. but I don't know how to fix it.
Some one told I should replace a new mother board. I bought this laptop at the fall of 2006, but my kid used only one year. it has not been used because this trouble. Is it the reasonable idea to buy new motherboard?
thanks!
Mike

Thanks for any response advance!
I tested this lapton again as following:
1. Boot from orininal recovery disc, erase and partition hard drive
2. continue to boot from recovery disc, select option of recovery of factory default software
3 finish the process to create CRC, and screen show the recovery completed
4. Screen shows " Apply final configuration (Don't interrupt)
5, Window Xp show to shut down, and restart laptop, the normal desktop screen is shown
6. pop up window indicates "load personal setting"
laptop repeatly step 4 to 6 two to three times, then I had couple different results:
a. laptop still power on, screen does not show any image, black, but it is different to the "black" without power.
b. a small window indicates: This system is not fully install, please run setup again"
If I manually shut down this laptop, and make cold power up:
a. stay at Window XP initial image, can not go to next
b. laptop show blue screen for one second (looks to make disk check), go to option to select safe mode or normal mode
c. go to Window guiding setup, I finished the Windows XP set up step by step, laptop freeze
The trouble begins at the step of "Apply final configuration".
Do I need to order the disc of Recovery and Application/Drivers, Satellite A100/A105 Series"?
Any suggestion? thanks!
Mike

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I was having an issue with Finder crashing on my Macbook Pro. After startup Finder would give me the spinning wheel of death if I clicked "about this Mac." To try to resolve this issue, I attempted to boot in Safe Mode, but it basically died each time when the progress bar reached around 20%. I was able to get into the Disk Utility and attempt to repair, but I learned that I need to back up and restore. (I tried this twice.) However, my machine will now only attempt to boot in Safe Mode (at which point it reverts to dying at around 20%). How can I back up my machine if I can't boot into either safe mode or regular mode?
(P.S., If you can't tell, I'm not hyper computer literate, so simple explanations will be most helpful. Thanks!)

dullman82,
as you’ve discovered, the option to back up is currently unavailable to you with your disk in its current condition. You can try these two possibilities:
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Boot into Recovery mode, and select Reïnstall Mac OS X to reïnstall OS X on your internal disk (which should leave your other files there untouched) to see if that will fix your Finder problem.

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