Dear Gurus' - so sorry to gatecrash this thread ..
I've got a similar thing happening too!
My desktop is running XP pro and hubby started noticing differences yesterday (some sort of driver error message which he can't remember the wording of)
I've been trying to start the ruddy thing in a safe mode.
safe mode + either networking or command prompt produces a black screen with safe mode in all 4 corners and the OS running across the top and then nada else happens, but in safe mode alone I get the windows restart blue page with the 5 things it goes through.
It gets to a point where it wants the Nvidia driver disc to continue then seems to hang - the mouse is unresponsive and I can't use the keyboard - so I can't command it to use a different drive to read the driver disc.
At this point in time I'd be just happy to get my ultra important doc's off the hard drive before I start doing anything else ..
any clues?
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