April 12, 200719 yr usually when entering safe mode, it shows me all the drivers and stuff thats loading. With XPize and Darkside installed (i dont know which one to blame), the screen is just black with a unusual graphic at the bottom (looks like a messed up progress bar?).Anyone else notice this?
April 12, 200719 yr didn't notice it when i did earlier ... let me take a look at it again ... as for the progress bar, it's really how it is
April 12, 200719 yr Author the "normal" progress bar has straight lines of the same height.this one is ugly and the lines all vary. i dont it even progresses; the lines all show at once, iirc.
April 12, 200719 yr would you mind uninstalling xpize darkside, and then test safemode. Please let me know how you get on.
April 12, 200719 yr Author well i guess darkside is not the culprit, however, after uninstallation, the normal bootscreen is gone. instead its all black with some strange dots at the bottom.
April 13, 200719 yr Hmmm. Do you know how to use reshacker? and... do you have access to another XP machine?
April 13, 200719 yr Author no, unfortuneately i dont know how to use reshacker. as for another XP machine, im at my other server 2003 machine now.
April 13, 200719 yr okey dokey...can you, (on the machine with the problem) goto the following folder..C:\Windows\system32 (C:\ maybe different on your machine)Then zip or rar the file, ntoskrnl.exe.Then could you upload it to rapidshare.com and provide the link for me?I'll check the file over and to see if it is a problem with the actual boot file.
April 14, 200719 yr Author since i am on a different computer, i uninstalled darkside to reproduce the problem. now my bootscreen is completely blank (black).heres ntoskrnl.exe as requested: http://rapidshare.com/files/25872230/ntoskrnl.rar.html
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