[dcook22]

Hi all,

I had always thought tapping F8 was the way in to Safe Mode, but I can't get there that way on my computer.

I restart the PC and tap F8 but I get a menu (the same old DOS blue with yellow letters that you'll find in a BIOS MENU) that asks me to specify the boot device I want to use. When I select the hard drive (I am trying to get into Win XP after all) it just boots windows normally.

The mobo is an ASUS A8N-E.

Does anyone know how to boot into Safe Mode on this motherboard? If not, is there another way to get in to Safe Mode?

And yes, I read the manual'd. It's not anywhere in the manual.

Thanks in advance,

Dan

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Oddly enough I got my own answer from ASUS tech support. I didn't think I'd get through. For those of you who may have had the same issue, the answer is:

Tap F8 until you get the boot options menu. Then hit F4 to exit that menu and immediately begin tapping F8 again. The Safe Mode menu comes right up.

Dan

P.s. I had no idea that ASUS was pronouced uh-SOOS (Accent on the SOOS). But that's how they say it on their hold message.

[dcook22]

Oddly enough I got my own answer from ASUS tech support. I didn't think I'd get through. For those of you who may have had the same issue, the answer is:

Tap F8 until you get the boot options menu. Then hit F4 to exit that menu and immediately begin tapping F8 again. The Safe Mode menu comes right up.

Dan

P.s. I had no idea that ASUS was pronouced uh-SOOS (Accent on the SOOS). But that's how they say it on their hold message.

[dcook22]

Oddly enough I got my own answer from ASUS tech support. I didn't think I'd get through. For those of you who may have had the same issue, the answer is:

Tap F8 until you get the boot options menu. Then hit F4 to exit that menu and immediately begin tapping F8 again. The Safe Mode menu comes right up.

Dan

P.s. I had no idea that ASUS was pronouced uh-SOOS (Accent on the SOOS). But that's how they say it on their hold message.

[dcook22]

Oddly enough I got my own answer from ASUS tech support. I didn't think I'd get through. For those of you who may have had the same issue, the answer is:

Tap F8 until you get the boot options menu. Then hit F4 to exit that menu and immediately begin tapping F8 again. The Safe Mode menu comes right up.

Dan

P.s. I had no idea that ASUS was pronouced uh-SOOS (Accent on the SOOS). But that's how they say it on their hold message.

[fleamailman]

there are other ways too, for example if you can get to post then via msconfic(choose the boot from there), also the "pull out the plug" way of waiting till the windows loading screen appears, pulling out the mains plug(remove battery in laptop beforehand) replug and reboot, it automatically will offer safeboot options as a result.