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F8 does not load safe mode solution

2008-05-04 13:44:26 by Martin in gHacks technology news

I ran into an unexpected problem today and would like to share the description and solution for it. Pressing F8 between system boot and Windows start loads a menu that offers several choices like booting Windows in Safe Mode or Restoring the last known good configuration. My problem was that I could not get into the F8 menu no matter what I did. It simply would start Windows right away as if the keyboard was not working at all.

The keyboard however was working because I was able to enter the BIOS and change the BIOS configuration.And then I remembered that it could have something to do with the connection of the keyboard. It was an USB keyboard. I discovered two solutions that helped. The first was to go into the BIOS and enable USB Keyboard Support. This made it possible to press F8 and get into the menu that allowed me to boot into safe mode.

The other solution was to simply connect an old PS2 keyboard to the computer and use that for the time and remove it later on. I guess the problem is that Windows has not loaded the correct USB drivers when it is possible to press the F8 key.