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Re: Vista shut down, will only boot in safe mode.
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2010, 04:15:17 PM »
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The recovery disc is one I made when I purchased the computer

Herein lies the problem...does the PC have a Recovery partition ? ?
Make and model would be helpful...
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    « Reply #16 on: July 03, 2010, 04:24:26 PM »
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    « Reply #17 on: July 03, 2010, 09:38:08 PM »
    I don't remember how to look at bios, but I assume it goes to the disk drive first. I just disconnected the disk drive and tried to boot, no change.
    How did you disconnected your disk drive? Did you open up your CPU casing to disconnect it and reconnect it?

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    « Reply #18 on: July 03, 2010, 09:57:49 PM »
    How old is your PC Robertw? Is your Desktop PC a slim type CPU? I'm second guessing here but aside from your dvd drive problem, it may have occured during some thermal issues(overheat) that's why it shutsdown... ???http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews133029.html

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      « Reply #19 on: July 04, 2010, 06:58:35 AM »
      How did you disconnected your disk drive? Did you open up your CPU casing to disconnect it and reconnect it?
      I opened it up and diconnected the cable from the drive.

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        « Reply #20 on: July 04, 2010, 07:01:11 AM »
        How old is your PC Robertw? Is your Desktop PC a slim type CPU? I'm second guessing here but aside from your dvd drive problem, it may have occured during some thermal issues(overheat) that's why it shutsdown... ???http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews133029.html

        I is a slimline, about 2 years old. I have experienced the overheating problem, it does ok if you leave the door open and clean it regularly.

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          « Reply #21 on: July 04, 2010, 08:16:03 AM »
          I started the process of elemination on the drivers and when I uninstalled the display drivers, the thing booted. When it automatically downloaded the drivers, it wouldn't boot again. Going to try a different graphics card.

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          « Reply #22 on: July 04, 2010, 08:19:36 AM »
          Whoa - what do you mean when it automatically downloaded the drivers? From Windows Update? NEVER get drivers from Windows Update. Go to the card manufacturer's website and download and install the current driver from there.

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            Re: Vista shut down, will only boot in safe mode.
            « Reply #23 on: July 04, 2010, 09:09:09 AM »
            Hello
            I use to have the same problem
            What Video Card and Grafics card do you have? ???
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            « Reply #24 on: July 04, 2010, 09:52:36 AM »
            I started the process of elemination on the drivers and when I uninstalled the display drivers, the thing booted. When it automatically downloaded the drivers, it wouldn't boot again. Going to try a different graphics card.
            It's always safe to uninstall drivers particularly to the area you know its encountering some problems as long as you have a back-up installer driver or a CD installer for your motherboard, sound, graphics or videocard. But in your case, it has nothing to do with uninstalling your display or video card and filling in with a different driver... ??? IF you bought your PC with its own CD driver, then that's the one to use not other sources unless you know your links or websites by just following the brand name and model of your hardware. You could always disable and able your device(DVD/CD device) on device manager but  if not needed, uninstall them right away.

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            « Reply #25 on: July 04, 2010, 09:56:52 AM »
            It's always safe to uninstall drivers particularly to the area you know its encountering some problems as long as you have a back-up installer driver or a CD installer for your motherboard, sound, graphics or videocard. But in your case, it has nothing to do with uninstalling your display or video card and filling in with a different driver... ??? IF you bought your PC with its own CD driver, then that's the one to use not other sources unless you know your links or websites by just following the brand name and model of your hardware. You could always disable and able your device(DVD/CD device) on device manager but  if not needed, uninstall them right away.
            Optical drives don't use drivers.

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            « Reply #26 on: July 04, 2010, 10:04:47 AM »
            Optical drives don't use drivers.
            It's always safe to uninstall drivers particularly to the area you know its encountering some problems as long as you have a back-up installer driver or a CD installer for your motherboard, sound, graphics or videocard. But in your case, it has nothing to do with uninstalling your display or video card and filling in with a different driver...  IF you bought your PC with its own CD driver, then that's the one to use not other sources unless you know your links or websites by just following the brand name and model of your hardware. You could always disable and able your device(DVD/CD device) on device manager but  if not needed, uninstall them right away.

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            Re: Vista shut down, will only boot in safe mode.
            « Reply #27 on: July 04, 2010, 10:06:00 AM »
            What are you talking about?

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            « Reply #28 on: July 04, 2010, 10:12:13 AM »
            What are you talking about?
            I started the process of elemination on the drivers and when I uninstalled the display drivers, the thing booted. When it automatically downloaded the drivers, it wouldn't boot again. Going to try a different graphics card.

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            « Reply #29 on: July 04, 2010, 10:17:10 AM »
            Which has WHAT to do with non-existent CD/DVD drivers?