Blues&twos
25th Dec 2008, 13:53
Hello, and happy Christmas!
As is traditional at this time of year my PC has crashed following installation of a new game. The crash actually happened halfway through a sound card driver update (PC just restarted itself whilst the progress bar was halfway across).
The PC restarted, Windows XP loaded and the User account selection screen appeared. Clicking on any user then briefly displays "Loading settings" then the PC restarts again.
Now, I've used System Restore quite a lot before but always from a Windows environment. I thought I'd give it a try from Safe Mode, but repeatedly pressing F8 during boot-up just brings up the MESH recovery tool, not the usual "How would you like to boot up?" options. Consequently I can't get to Safe Mode or System Restore.
Any ideas? It's a bit sh1t of MESH to make it so tricky to get to a very useful recovery tool.
I've tried ESC and various other combinations of keys on boot up too.
Time to crack open the alcohol I think.:E
As is traditional at this time of year my PC has crashed following installation of a new game. The crash actually happened halfway through a sound card driver update (PC just restarted itself whilst the progress bar was halfway across).
The PC restarted, Windows XP loaded and the User account selection screen appeared. Clicking on any user then briefly displays "Loading settings" then the PC restarts again.
Now, I've used System Restore quite a lot before but always from a Windows environment. I thought I'd give it a try from Safe Mode, but repeatedly pressing F8 during boot-up just brings up the MESH recovery tool, not the usual "How would you like to boot up?" options. Consequently I can't get to Safe Mode or System Restore.
Any ideas? It's a bit sh1t of MESH to make it so tricky to get to a very useful recovery tool.
I've tried ESC and various other combinations of keys on boot up too.
Time to crack open the alcohol I think.:E