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Windows 8 can't enter safe mode or boot

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  • 13-12-2012 1:29am
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    DesperateDan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭


    So I installed windows 8 today and all was fine until I installed the Asus AI suite for my rampage iv formula mobo. Now I cannot boot into windows or access safe mode at all. I've tried every suggestion of holding/tapping shift+f8 but it seems that hotkey is gone. Any suggestions of how I can enter safe mode?


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    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    DesperateDan wrote: »
    So I installed windows 8 today and all was fine until I installed the Asus AI suite for my rampage iv formula mobo. Now I cannot boot into windows or access safe mode at all. I've tried every suggestion of holding/tapping shift+f8 but it seems that hotkey is gone. Any suggestions of how I can enter safe mode?

    just tap f8 not shift + f8

    its always been just f8 and never shift + f8


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    DesperateDan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    Freddy Smelly wrote: »

    just tap f8 not shift + f8

    its always been just f8 and never shift + f8

    Thanks for the response, the story I have learned off my little phone browser is that it was always f8, until the customer preview of W8, which changed it to hold shift+tap f8, and in the final release it looks like they have gotten rid of those hotkeys completely. I have read people saying there is no need for a safe mode because W8 theoretically boots in some kind of new safe mode every time and checks vital stuff before booting. There is a safe mode there but the only way I can see to access it is by setting it somewhere in the control panel, which of course I have no access to.

    Edit: I'm on a crappy netbook now so can google a wee bit more. Here is a pretty funny discussion on it. It seems to have been completely removed, and a repair disc is required get me out of this predicament. Oh well, guess I'll have to try and reinstall windows :/ Not good first impressions!


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    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    lol yeah windows 8 doesn't seem have the draw to it that windows 7 did.

    ill stick with win 7 until windows 9 or 10 :P


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    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭testicle


    DesperateDan wrote: »
    Thanks for the response, the story I have learned off my little phone browser is that it was always f8, until the customer preview of W8, which changed it to hold shift+tap f8, and in the final release it looks like they have gotten rid of those hotkeys completely. I have read people saying there is no need for a safe mode because W8 theoretically boots in some kind of new safe mode every time and checks vital stuff before booting. There is a safe mode there but the only way I can see to access it is by setting it somewhere in the control panel, which of course I have no access to.

    Edit: I'm on a crappy netbook now so can google a wee bit more. Here is a pretty funny discussion on it. It seems to have been completely removed, and a repair disc is required get me out of this predicament. Oh well, guess I'll have to try and reinstall windows :/ Not good first impressions!

    It's F8 on its own. I just verified it there.


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