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Win7 stopped loading except SAFE Mode
Hi all,
Firstly apologies that my first post is a cry for help, I only found this forum looking for help, and would like to contribute also.
This morning I turned on my PC and the monitor showed that there was no signal and went to power save mode. I checked DVI leads - all ok. Tried a few things as this has happened before and realized the BIOS was not loading or the signal was not getting from machine (via graphics card) to monitor. This has happened before and a CMOS reset has fixed.
I reset CMOS and could then load BIOS. However Windows would not load even after making sure RAID and all other BIOS settings were as they were before. I tried a few times and did a system restore and loaded last known working profile. Now Windows starts to load and I get to the multi coloured dots forming the MS Windows symbol and it looks like it is about to load, but when the screen goes blank and the machine restarts - this loop continues unless I boot to safe mode.
I also removed all usb devices and tried - same result.
So, I have tried a number of settings, a system restore, and I tried some other things that seemed to fail as windows said the machine would not start properly.
I am now going to boot into Ubuntu to see if that works and that may rule out the gfx card, I will report that back. I will also boot without the keyboard and report that too.
Any ideas of what I can try?
Thanks
Last edited by mamacabbage; 10 Feb 2013 at 16:00.