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Starts in Safe Not in Normal
What's the difference between Safe Boot and Normal?
I used sysconfig to turn off everything that wasn't running in Safe. Normal (selective) boot still bombs.
Context:
Computer is a used Optiplex. Came with Xp. I added w7 home premium 32 [a year ago] and w7 home premium 64 this summer. Been Stable in '64 for two months. That's 3 partitions total.
Subsequent to an acronis restore that failed, my W7 boots have been problematic. Xp works fine. But both w7 partitions will launch in Safe but yeild a blue red or green screen on "normal boot". Soon as I key in the password. I always assumed that some of the "Apperance" items in W7 drove my video card nuts. As soon as I used Norton 16 adjusted for "best performance" [ makes it look like classic windows with a square start box ] the problem went away.
Current strategy: Disable everything I can till it starts and then add services back in till I find the culprit.
Prior posts on "boots safe but" topic contain warnings as to age[1700 days..]. I've done system repair, boot fixes from neosmart, spotmau, and the partition activator. Since the data is "there" I believe this is a video conflict.
So if anyone knows how to do Selective Startup with only Safe Mode Components...I would like to know.
Could be I need a wiped disk and a scratch install, starting with W7 and adding the xp partition later.
Apologies if this post is in the wrong place.
-wbajr tbc