I've always turned off my desktop box at night. Recently when I've turned it on in the morning I get the Compaq splash page (it's a Compaq Presario SR5510F) but it never gets past that to the usual Windows Vista sign-in page. I've tried doing Startup Repair by pressing the F8 key while the machine starts, but when doing so I'm told it finds no errors.
Usually after turning off the machine with its On/Off switch it boots correctly, but I live in terror that someday soon it won't. I've got backups of my files, so that's not a big worry, but I really would like to have a working machine.
Any suggestions?
Posted by Linkmeister at October 7, 2010 12:19 PM | TrackBackIs it possible to start up in safe mode?
Posted by: Rob McMillin at October 7, 2010 01:44 PMThe option is there when I use the F8 key, which I had never tried till I wanted to run "Startup Repair." Before that the only time I've seen that page has been after a power spike which shut down everything and I've gotten the "Windows did not shut down properly" alarm. I've always just selected "start Windows normally" in that case.
Posted by: Linkmeister at October 7, 2010 01:55 PMFurther discussion took place at my Facebook page. It's kinda sorta resolved (I hope), but there's still weirdness. See further info there on my wall post also titled "Holy Errors, Batman!"
Posted by: Linkmeister at October 7, 2010 05:44 PM