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Arcade VGA Safe Mode Woes
Knoxximus:
--- Quote from: Peale on May 14, 2004, 11:40:56 pm ---Odd...XP should give you the option. I doubt it's ArcadeVGA related, though.
Have you tried swapping another card to see if the result is the same?
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Yeah, I swapped it with my main comp's card (Nvidia Ge4 MMX400...or something like that). I got into safe mode with that card installed, so while I was in there, I uninstalled the drivers for the Ge4 so that it could recognize the AVGA upon reboot. However, the same sh!t keeps happening. Only now, when I bang on F8, it just hangs and I have to CtrlAltDelete it's ass!
dabone:
I'm going to take a stab in the dark, do you have a newer keyboards with a F-lock key?
All the newer microsoft keyboards I've been selling you have to hit the f-lock key right after bootup to be able to press F8 (if you don't hit f-lock its inputing the keyboard shortcut for fwd for office)
Maybe that will help.
Also, just try any other keyboard, and as soon as you see your bios post just start pressing the f8 key once every second.
Good luck.
later,
dabone
StephenH:
You could have a bad keyboard, or your keyboard and mouse are swapped.
Also, the endless reboot loop could be a result of the sasser worm trying to infect your PC, or has infected it. To get out of the one-minute shutdown restart-loop, set the clock back a day. To fix the worm, download a removal tool, and the security patch, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=76C6DE7E-1B6B-4FC3-90D4-9FA42D14CC17&displaylang=en for the removal tool
and
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx
:UK:Nyrkl:
What I've ended up doing in the past, is letting windows start up a bit, then pressing the reset button - when it restarts it detects it didnt start up, and prompts you if you want to go into safe mode.
DaveJ-UK:
It shouldn't get past the BIOS screen if the keyboard is not plugged in or the keyb/mouse are round the wrong way.
I had problems under 2000 with swapping a regular video card for ArcadeVGA. In the end I used an old PCI graphics card to install Windows and set everything up, then I installed the ArcadeVGA and installed the drivers. If you have onboard video, this is effectively a PCI video adapter so you have no need for a seperate PCI card.
I think 2000/XP just don't like having two sets of AGP graphics drivers installed.