safe mode

**michael** · December 5th, 2003, 04:10 AM

Hi, I just can,t get out of safe mode, the unit is a fujitsu lifebook, wins me. I replaced the hard drive from my old laptop. the system up and runs but I cannot get full colour only 16 colours. I have tryed to restore but no joy there. tryed changing setting for monitior and adapter no joy it just keeps going back to safe mode. I tryed to uninstall me but it will not allow me. I have connected to windows update and downloaded all their updates but still nothing works. I only have an A drive, no cd rom and the laptop is networked to my pc and can excess the interinet.
please any ideas out there. Its driving me mad. O one thing the old hard drive was taken out due to incomplete software package but I am unable to reload due to lack of cd rom and the fact that the laptop will not find a usb external cd rom I had.
Hope someone outthere can help
thanks
michael

**eboyjones** · December 5th, 2003, 04:30 AM

Welcome to windrivers.

First in safe mode you are only going to get 16 colors as the driver for you video card is not loaded.

Second while in safe mode have you tried a full scandisk with the "fix errors"
box checked.

Third when you are booting up your system are you getting any error messages. These messages will help us figure out your problem.

Let us know what happens.

**michael** · December 5th, 2003, 05:56 AM

hi thanks for trying to help, There are no error messages, the system starts ok, but only in 16 colours( thats safe mode I think ) I have run scandisk with fix errors around 10 times with no result.
In the device manager there is a ? on other devices, sub PCI Multimedia audio device, apart from that all looks ok.

**eboyjones** · December 5th, 2003, 06:00 AM

Make sure you have audio drivers for that device with "?" and delete it. See if that gets you out of safe mode.

**confus-ed** · December 5th, 2003, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by eboyjones

Make sure you have audio drivers for that device with "?" and delete it. See if that gets you out of safe mode.

He isn't in safe mode !!! else how did he manage to visit windows update ? modems, network cards etc don't work in that because as you quite correctly said earlier it doesn't load the drivers

Its pretty god damn easy to tell ... it says 'safe mode' on all four corners & you get a little message telling you that you are 'there' before you can do anything else !

What he needs to do is update his video driver ! that's what is restricting him to 16 colours, as at the moment my guess is that for video adapter he has a device 'standard vga'... to check open device manager, open the heading 'display adapters' - post what it says there please.

All the drivers for a fujitsu lifebook are here @fujitsu (pick your model) - once you've downloaaded & saved those you should be able to update your current 'default windows choice' to what actually is there but windows (whatever version it is) didn't recognise fully

Hopefully this'll fix up your usb issue too, your old hard drive had all this stuff on it

- we just need to go get it again.

**eboyjones** · December 5th, 2003, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by confus-ed

He isn't in safe mode !!! else how did he manage to visit windows update ? modems, network cards etc don't work in that because as you quite correctly said earlier it doesn't load the drivers

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I hate it when people point out the obvious I missed

, wrong thread?
Oh well up too late.