tin2tin Posted May 16, 2008 I'm running the latest free version of SAS and XP SP2 I've asked it to boot in safe mode. When rebooting there's a flash of a blue screen(crash) and then it reboots again. It doesn't matter in which mode (safe or anything else with F8 ) - it crashes over and over - and reboots over and over. In other words XP will not load/open. What can I do? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUPERAntiSpy Posted May 16, 2008 I'm running the latest free version of SAS and XP SP2I've asked it to boot in safe mode. When rebooting there's a flash of a blue screen(crash) and then it reboots again. It doesn't matter in which mode (safe or anything else with F8 ) - it crashes over and over - and reboots over and over. In other words XP will not load/open. What can I do? Boot to last know good configuration - something on your system likley corrupted a Windows component. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tin2tin Posted May 18, 2008 Boot to last know good configuration - something on your system likley corrupted a Windows component. Not possible. A malware or whatever killed all security software on my computer at ruined the safe mode... Rebooting with the SAS setting in safemode forced the boot up into a loop where the safe mode crashed it everytime, and the computer rebooted over and over. Here's how I solved it: Used a Linux - Live CD with a texteditor to change c:\Boot.ini so it wouldn't boot in safe mode. Then I ran Bit Defender + Kaspersky online virus scanners. Then I ran this to restore safe mode: http://blog.didierstevens.com/2007/02/19/restoring-safe-mode-with-a-reg-file/ Then I ran SAS in safe mode - it didn't find the malware. Then I installed'ed Avast(trial) from a usb-stick and got it to do a pre-boot scanning. That solved the problem. Now I can install the various safety sofwares firewall etc. again(after 4 days ). My suggestion to you guys is that SAS must check if safe mode is working okay, before it's allowed to reboot with that SAS setting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites