I may have done soemthing bad....I went in and unchecked some programs from the auto start menu. shutdown my system and unplugged everything, I was switching to a new keyboard and mouse. plugged everything back in and started the machine up, and it loaded the log on screen, and i put my password in and it took mad long. it just kept saying "loading your personal settings" for like an hour. so i shut the thing off. waited a little while, and now when i try to start back up, the keyboard flashes momentarily, then doesnt recognize it, there is no activity on my monitor at all..the light stays orange and never turns green or anything. dont think the mouse works anymore either, cant see anything anyway. what can i do? windows xp pro on an older HP machine. dont ask me what i removed from the auto start area, not really sure. also, please dont tell me I'm stupid
any help to my long post is greatly 'preciated
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Jump to Posthit f8 repeatedly as soon as it powers on - you should get to a menu. "Choose last known hood configuration" and if that doesnt work try "safe mode"
Jump to Posthit f8 repeatedly as soon as it powers on - you should get to a menu. "Choose last known hood configuration" and if that doesnt work try "safe mode"
to continue ,in safe you will be able to use the program you used to stop the startup programs ,did you …
Jump to Postas caperjack stated what program did you use to remove the autostart programs. not what you removed, and the best option is to use the LASTKNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION from the F8 menu, once you see the bios screen loaded start hitting F8 until you see a windows startup menu.
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Jump to PostPress F8 repeatedly otherwise the computer doesn't realise you want the boot menu to show up. Did you just press it once? Once you have pressed F8 a lot, then select the Safe Mode option press enter and it should turn on as normal. Then re-check all the options you …
Jump to PostSo nothing appears when you hit F8? Strange, Have you accidentally removed any of the Power supply cables inside the machine? That could cause an issue like this.
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