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Old February 11th 19, 01:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default BSOD in Safe mode but can enter normal mode

In message , Lu Wei
writes:
I have a very strange phenomenon with my ThinkPad X61, WindowsXPsp3. It
runs normally, but I cannot enter safe mode. Press F8 at boot, select
any one of 3 safe modes, it will end to a blue screen of death showing
something like:
Stop: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF76C0211, 0xF78EA700, 0xF78EA3FC)

Before that blue screen, a screen shows a bunch of drivers loading. The
last one is mup.sys. That signed file is fine, however. Something after
that must be wrong.

I used to be able to enter safe mode, but I cannot determine when this
phenomenon begins. Safe mode is used rarely.

Could anybody give some hints?

Can you boot into all other modes other than the three "safe" ones?
Is there one called something like "normal with logging"? If so (and you
can find where the log file _is_, and make sense of it!), you _might_ be
able to see which one is loading after mup.sys. Although if it boots
anyway, that might not help ... |-:
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