Booting Into WinXP Safe Mode?

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asterion

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I downloaded the RC2 update to give the new features a shot. WinXP detected the new video drivers, none of which were signed (of course.) It gave me three to pick from and I took the one from the top of the list. Since then, it has had a driver conflict with the Parallels video driver and, although WinXP will boot, all that happens after the normal loading screen is a black screen. I'm pretty sure that if I could just force it to boot into safe mode, I could roll back the system to before the new drivers were installed and get it working again. However, I cannot find a way to force either the WinXP loader or the Parallels BIOS to force a safe mode boot.

And no, I was not smart enough to back up the file beforehand.
 
Well, I'm an idiot. It's been so long since I had to boot into safe mode on my desktop (which is where I normally run WinXP) that I forgot about the F8 key.

Anyway, does anyone know which driver to use for the video?
 
asterion said:
Well, I'm an idiot. It's been so long since I had to boot into safe mode on my desktop (which is where I normally run WinXP) that I forgot about the F8 key.

Anyway, does anyone know which driver to use for the video?
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And once again, I'm an idiot. The version descriptions of course. (Apparently, the NT drivers won't work with XP, despite them being the same kernel.)
 
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