Jizzle Juice Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 My laptop only runs well in save mode with networking. Im not tech fond and i need some help. Can someone point me in the right direction. TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Cranium Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Safe mode boots up the machine with the default drivers from Microsoft, not the updated drivers for your hardware. You may have a bum driver. You can roll back drivers while in safe mode. Start with the driver with the most recent date and roll it back. Then try booting into regular mode and see what happens. If that doesn't fix it then find the driver with the next most recent date and try again. You may also have a piece of software loading at startup in regular mode that does not load in safe mode. You can look at what executes at startup using msconfig. Pull up the run bar and type msconfig and it will load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
04silvrz Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 does it give u the choice to boot in normal mode? what do you mean it only runs well in safe mode? is it just slow when it boots normal? have you added anything new recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jizzle Juice Posted August 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Rick, i know what you mean i just cant execute. I thought it would be a simple fix. Bill, Yes it gives me the option to run in safe mode with networking, safe mode without, or normal mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
04silvrz Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 and when you run in normal mode, it's slow? if I were u, i would back up all my files and reformat with the windows xp disk. that would be the easiest. that is unless you installed something new recently, then I would try to remove whatever you installed and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jizzle Juice Posted August 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Yeah in mormal mode its a piece or crap. I had a guy back up my pics and such and did something to it. He added windows 7, but its not the real version of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
04silvrz Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 did it ever run good with win 7? do you have the win 7 disk? cause you can redo it with that too. if you don't have a good copy of win 7 I would go back to xp, or take it back to that dude that put it on there. i will be at cars and coffee tomorrow if you want to bring it out I could have a quick look and see what's up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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