Windows Safe Mode



You saw a cool program, downloaded and installed it. It asked for a restart. However, after restarting you couldn’t get back into Windows. There seem to be an error. You wanna get into Windows to undo the changes but don’t know how. Sometimes, even changing network configurations will make it impossible for you to get in. What do you do?

Press F8.

Pressing and holding on to F8 as the computer loads will enable you to choose safe mode. From there, you can enter your Windows using only the most basic settings. You are most likely to undo your mistakes.

Additional information on computer POST / Beep Codes

Each motherboard BIOS is programmed to emit a beep code to help us identify the problem at hand. There were days when I added RAM and changed graphic cards to my computer but couldn’t tell which was the one that I didn’t slot in properly. The BIOS would sometime give out long beeps, sometimes short beeps. It took me some time to learn the difference.

Award BIOS
Video problem = 1 long beep followed by 2 short beep
RAM problem = Any other beep

Access/Enter Motherboard BIOS



Some computers load very fast at startup. Sometimes too fast until you can’t catch the command to enter the BIOS system. There would be times when you would want to change the time and dates / overclock the processor and RAM / rearrange the boot up sequence. Most computers I know uses Award BIOS. If you are using it too, just press the ‘Del’ key to make your changes. Michael Stevens has collected a list of common motherboard BIOS keyboard commands.

If all fails, bring it to a computer repair shop to help you diagnose the problem. At least you know what the beeps mean and won’t get cheated to buy unnecessary items. =)

Beep Codes
Motherboard BIOS beep codes.

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One day, as you come home from school or work, turn on your pc and suddenly find a foreign electrical fizzy sound coming from the back of the unit. You immediately turned it off, check all the cables and try turning it on again. You hear more funny sounds and smoke starts coming out of your power supply. Great, a blown psu. You buy a new psu, fix it in but found out that the 160GB hard drive (containing several thousand songs, movies and digital pictures of your family and friends) is not working. You try everything you can but it still won't start. Then you realize, you have a dead hard drive.

Relax, cause there are 2 ways to rectify the problem.

1. Pay for a hard drive recovery service.

This is the easiest and most secure way to recover any data from your drive. Just google for it and you will find many hard drive recovery companies ready to serve you. This option is most suitable for individuals/companies that has lots of sensitive and important information kept in the drive. Money won't be an issue because the most important thing is recovering the months/years of data kept in the drive.

2. Do it yourself

This is will be the choice of home users and students. Lets look at the prices of recovery services and new hard drives.

I googled for "hard drive recovery service price" and only found 1 site willing to give an example pricing of their services. Here's a cutout from their website.

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