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xp won't start in normal mode

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by deskject

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I'm running xp home edition, media edition.
I have noticed lately that I am not booted in normal mode. I have run msconfig and tried seeting it to normal mode, however whenever I do this and chech the boot up it has safe mode checked. If I uncheck safe mode and then look at start up it always shows selective mode. If I choose uncheck selective mode and look at bootup it has changed back to safe mode. It seems I can't seem to select normal startup without safe mode being selected even though I uncheck them. The computer boots ok in selective mode but I wondering if it should be booting in normal mode. Any ideas whats up with this
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by zlitocook

To tell you some thing. But it could be allot of things, like a corrupt driver, a virus, some thing not loading correctly at start up. Have you looked at the event viewer? Try cleaning your computer, run defrag and scan disk. Update your anti virus and run it, check your hard ware in control panel/system to see if there are any problems. Update your system through MS, do all updates including hardware and software.
What type of compter is it? A Dell, HP or another type?

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