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Hot Topics Hanging on L4Y Closing Down anyone here Crackdown 3's geomod Roll-Call. Who's still... R.I.P Sir Lots-A-Pot Server maps? Red Faction for Mac Who's still here? Run Event December 27th!   Online Goodness There are 0 users and 2 guests online     Levels-4-You : Lounge : Laptop safe mode? [Forum Rules]   Back to Forum Thread List sobe    Posted 11th Jul 2005 7:55pm Post 510 / 3194 How would I access the safe mode feature on a laptop. It is a Compaq Presario. Also, Safe Mode is needed for the installation of MSN Messenger 7 corrupted the Win98 files somewhere. As to why I need to go into safe mode and uninstall MSN Messenger. "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006     SkipRat    Posted 11th Jul 2005 10:24pm Post 483 / 3024 f8? when its in the bios? Meh...    Modified Jul 11th, 10:25pm by SkipRat sobe    Posted 12th Jul 2005 1:36am Post 511 / 3194 A friend downloaded and installed MSN Messenger 7 from http://messenger.msn.com and after the installation the laptop was rebooted. Then it simply goes to Windows 98 and loads the background and shows an error in the middle of screen as a popup with a solution that says Please Try reinstalling your OS. "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006     Linkin Park   Posted 12th Jul 2005 4:54am L4Y Member Post 28 / 57 i think it's F8 like Win XP if not srry i can't help u [THe only os i've ever had is Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 1] sobe    Posted 12th Jul 2005 5:08am Post 516 / 3194 WinXP is good but Win98 works well except for that damned blue screen of death! And yes, but, rather than holding F8 I must rapidly tap it lol. Even safe mode doesn't work.... Well, I'm off to go through my books and see if I can remember all the DOS commands to delete items and such "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006     Pack Hunter   Posted 12th Jul 2005 5:08am L4Y Member Post 153 / 229 if its anything like my dell insprion 8200 you should be abe to go into your bios and shut all boot sequences off so that when you reboot, your computer will ask you to go into your bios and change some settings or boot into safe mode. not sure though edit ok you fixed it before me and my srry little self We will be known by the tracks we leave behind    Modified Jul 12th, 05:10am by Pack Hunter SkipRat    Posted 12th Jul 2005 11:20am Post 487 / 3024 heh i dont see why installing msn has messed up your install though man. Sounds dodgey! Meh...     Assaultman67    Posted 15th Jul 2005 5:15am Post 17 / 4376 that does sound kinda odd, unless its a newer version (i don't use Instant Messengers ) older OS sometimes poop a brick when new software is installed go figure    Modified Jul 15th, 05:16am by Assaultman67

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