Yesterday, I decided to make use of the new attic room and went up at about 9.00pm. The room is very welcoming and I played the BBC2 recording of Tubular Bells and read a couple of chapters of a book about Fred Dibnah. Then, when the music stopped, I had a bash at the workstation and tried several times to get it up and running again.
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Then I decided to listen to a Kenny Everett show recorded from BBC Radio 7 and I read a couple more chapters of the book about Fred. Then I went back to the workstation and played around a bit more and............. Lo, there was a breakthrough. I have managed to get the box to boot consistently into safe mode. This is, indeed, a bonus and it points me in the direction of my original suspicions. The whole thing fell over when there was a major update. The system was set to update everything, not just Microsoft files. I suspect it picked up a new NVidia driver which disagrees with my setup. When I re-installed the new drive, I also took the latest NVidia driver from the web site. I will try a new install with the original driver and see what happens. If that works, then I will be able to move forward again.
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