Klarinet Archive - Posting 000845.txt from 1999/08

From: Dave Sandusky <daves@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] website and e-mail address for kalmus
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:34:27 -0400

I'm sure Mark can add much more to this, but Safe Mode is Windows booting up
with a minimal set of drivers. This usually occurs because you did not shut the
machine down "gracefully" (i.e. did not "Shut Down" from the Starm Menu") or
that you had to reset it with the reset button either while running or while it
was booting up (because it "hung" on the boot-up). It is sort of a "fail-safe"
mode that allows you to fix things that may have gone wrong when the machine
decided it needed to boot in Safe Mode. That part is for the more computer
savy.

All I do when that happens is do the gracefull "Shut Down" and then re-start the
computer when it tells me it is safe to do so. It should come back up in
"normal" mode.

What quite possibly happend to you is you had a power interruption/spike (hence
the machine shut down "un-gracefully") and when the power returned to normal,
the machine turned back on and started up in Safe Mode, which is it's default
when this sort of thing happens.
Whew...I hope that helps!

Dave Sandusky

David Smith wrote:

> Actually Richard, I can use both a Mac and A PC; however, for our family, it
> was best to go with majority rule. In the language lab at VCU (I studied
> Spanish as a major for a year there about two years ago), they had all Macs,
> so I had to get used to it. Anyway, I have no clue what safe mode is, just
> that it looks like something foul, and I couldn't access the Internet.
> Frankly, I agree, it was anything but safe; I was unsafe for others around
> me for almost two days!!
>
> Patty Smith
>
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