"Thomas" <Idontthinkso@help.com> wrote in message
news:JvP5h.6599$6t.6033@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com ...
>I have a computer that I built about 2 years ago. It has been working
>great. Asus PC8000 E board with 512 ram and 200 gig hard drive and ATI
>Radeon 7500 All In Wonder Card. Again it has been working great but a few
>weeks ago our power went off. When it came back and I rebooted it gave a
>bios error and would not boot. It would go to the F5 screen and it would
>let me boot into safe mode. When in safe mode I would reboot and it would
>boot up again the right way. The bios error is gone. Yesterday I had to
>reboot it and now it will only boot into safe mode. Today I booted into
>safe mode and uninstalled the video card and then it did boot up fine. I
>then found new video drivers and to test it I rebooted again. Now it will
>not boot up again except for safe mode. Ive tried unplugging all the
>devices and then booting up that that did not work. Nothing I do will let
>it boot normal, just into safe mode. When it did boot up, it worked fine
>with no problems. Could this be a hardware problem or a driver problem?
>The last thing I installed was Norton System Works. I don't really think
>that is the problem but who knows. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Tom
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Okay...since you can boot in safe mode. Consider doing a system
restore to a point before your power failure. Let me know if that works
for ya.

Cheers!

ISPgeek

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