PC not booting up on safe mode or normal mode?

Question

I've been having problems with my computer for a while now, and I don't know if it's an OS, hard disk or motherboard issue. Windows would give a message that it did not start properly and asks if you want to start in normal mode or safe mode. When I select normal mode, it would hang and not boot up at all (or even show the windows start up screen). In safe mode, it stops loading after it loads the agp440.sys driver. Also, while on start up (where you can choose to run setup, etc), it would list these:
Auto-detecting Primary Master IDE Hard Disk
Auto-detecting Primary Slave IDE Hard Disk
Auto-detecting Sec Master ATAPI CDROM
Auto-detecting Sec Slave ATAPI CDROM

and then it would list that my two hard disk are s.m.a.r.t. capable but disabled. It never showed this message before, and I've checked my BIOS settings, and it doesn't have the option for me to enable/disable s.m.a.r.t.

Any help or input would be greatly appreciated.

PS: Even before i got these messages on my startup, I was having problems with my video card. I've solved that one, but was replaced by this issue. Don't know if it has anything to do with it.

Answer 1

You must know the administrator password to complete the following procedure. If you do not know the administrator password, contact your system administrator. After you complete this procedure, any video adapter driver you have installed will be disabled, and Windows XP will use default VGA drivers. 1. Insert your Windows XP CD-ROM into the computer CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart your computer from the CD-ROM.



Note Some computers may require that you modify the basic input/output system (BIOS) settings before you can start the computer from a CD-ROM. For information about how to modify the BIOS, see your computer documentation.

2. At the Welcome to Setup screen, press R to start the Recovery Console.

3. Press the number key that corresponds to the installation that you want to repair, and then press ENTER.

4. Type the password for the administrator account of that installation, and then press ENTER. You receive a drive:WINDOWS> prompt, where drive is the drive on which Windows XP is installed.

5. Type listsvc, and then press ENTER.

6. Make sure that the Agp440 service is listed, and that the startup type is set to "Boot".

7. Press ESC.

8. Type disable agp440, and then press ENTER.

9. You receive a message that the registry setting for this service was found, and that its current startup state is "service_disabled".

10. Type exit, and then press ENTER.

11. If you are prompted to start in Safe mode or Normal mode, start in Normal mode.

12. Log on to your computer.

Windows XP includes default video drivers that make it possible for your monitor to work. However, some features may not work as you expect with these default drivers. Update your motherboard chipset video drivers periodically. To do so, visit your computer manufacturer's Web site, and download the most recent drivers for your video adapter.

Answer 2

Booting into secure Mode demands pressing F8. that's in no way the different KEY. The respondents suggesting employing the different key are flawed - this gets you into your device BIOS no longer into abode windows secure mode. out of your description it looks such as you're no longer pressing F8 on the staggering time. It desires pressing as quickly as abode windows starts off loading (that's when you will have seen another stuff on your demonstrate which includes testing device reminiscence etc). slightly trial and blunder would desire to get you there.

Answer 3

apparently, your graphics problem isnt sorted out, only worsened and led to your os crash. If you have a winxp software cd, boot from it. You will get an option where it asks u if u wanna repair the earlier os. ONce you do that, it will copy the files required to boot your os again, and windows would start working again..