Can only work in safe mode

Madmacca · External Since: Oct 19, 2009 Posts: 1

My computer will go to Windows Logo and then crash and keep trying to
re-boot,will only work in safe mode and cannot get into Admin

Can anyone offer any help or suggestions?

Andrew E. · External Since: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 3617

Select safe-mode,open xp with the option listed to enter as thee
"administrator".

"Madmacca" wrote:

> My computer will go to Windows Logo and then crash and keep trying to
> re-boot,will only work in safe mode and cannot get into Admin
>
> Can anyone offer any help or suggestions?

Malke · External Since: Jan 13, 2009 Posts: 113

Andrew E. wrote:

> Select safe-mode,open xp with the option listed to enter as thee
> "administrator".
>
> "Madmacca" wrote:
>
>> My computer will go to Windows Logo and then crash and keep trying to
>> re-boot,will only work in safe mode and cannot get into Admin
>>
>> Can anyone offer any help or suggestions?

Andrew, give it a rest.

"Madmacca" - you will need to give more information about your computer. Off
hand, it sounds as though the machine is extremely infected. If this is the
case, since you can get into Safe Mode you may be able to clean it up.
Otherwise you'll need to be more descriptive for us to help you.

The First Question Of Troubleshooting: If the problem is new, what changed
between the time things worked and the time they didn't?

The Second Question of Windows Troubleshooting: what is the malware/virus
status of the machine? If you think it is clean, what programs (and
versions) did you use to determine this?

Be sure the computer is clean:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

If you can't do the work yourself (and there is no shame in admitting this
isn't your cup of tea), take the machine to a professional computer repair
shop (not your local equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible,
have all your data backed up before you take the machine into a shop.

Malke
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Shenan Stanley · External Since: Mar 03, 2005 Posts: 7789

Madmacca wrote:
> My computer will go to Windows Logo and then crash and keep trying
> to re-boot,will only work in safe mode and cannot get into Admin
>
> Can anyone offer any help or suggestions?

What - if any - hardware drivers did you recently update?

What - if any - software did you recently update?

Have you tried a system restore?

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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