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by jguerrero26

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I am troubleshooting a PC that will only boot in safe mode when trying to boot normally it gives me a black screen ~ how can I find out what file is missing & how would I replace it? could it be an INI file? If so how would I know which one? I woulddo a reformat but I have valuable file on this HD & would rather not ~ your help is greatly appreciated! Thanx

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by oz_media

Sounds like a graphics or sound card card issue, but probaly a graphics card.Have you upgraded the OS recently? If so install the right drivers.
You can boot into safe mode and check Settings> Control Panel> System and check for hardware conflictsin the Device Manager.
Try setting the graphics card to 640X480 and changing it to Default Adapter (as opposed to a specific card), if you can boot normally this way, you need to install the correct graphics drivers.

OR

if it IS a system file missing, boot into safe mode and click START>RUN> then type "sfc.exe" (wothout the quotes) to run the System files checker. If th eOS is not on a restore partition, you will need the OS disk to replace files not found.

Keep me posted as you getmore info.
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by jguerrero26

As I looked further i found out yes it is missing SYSTEM.INI files when i ran sysconfig in the run option on the start menu ~ I was able to load some but not all using my Win. 98 disk now i have no mouse & the graphics (chipset) still suck!

by scott.heath

OR... you could have the resolution set to high for the monitor so it only works in safe mode where the res is auto set to 640x480.

by deadly ernest

You can do a rebuild without doing a reformat. use a Win98 boot disk to boot up in DOS. Then delete the Windows root directory command files and rename your Windows directory to something appropriate, like CRAP. Then put your Windows sysetm disk in and start to load the operating system as if to a new disk, if it asks to format say NO. This should create a new Windows directory and load all the files for the operating system.

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