Stuck in Safe Mode - Vista - viruses? Driver problem? Help, please

I'm operating Vista Home Premium and only the system starts in Mode safe.  Several vertical lines in a model of 5 show on the screen as it tries to start. He is stuck in a loop of repair of unsuccessul attempts but I can't us F8 to go into Safe Mode, no problem.

Normal system repair did not work. System Restore to a watch in which the system was working did not work (went back 2 weeks).  I thought it might be a video driver error, but new updates of drivers did not fix the problem still could be the problem?  It will not Norton scan (although my anti virus has expired four days before what is happening). I uncheck all startup items and confirmed that in Normal Mode with the system configuration. None of this has worked.

I bought an external hard drive to transfer all my data on that I agree with setting back to factory settings, but it will not recognize the new external drive in safe mode.   -Why is this?

Any help on these two issues would be much appreciated!  Pulling the last hair on my head!

Hi ColtsBlue,

·         Did you of recent changes on the computer that could have caused this start happening?

·         Are you able to scan the machine with something other than Norton?

I suggest you try the methods below and check if it helps.

Method 1: If you have the disks for Windows Vista try a startup repair and verification.

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/products/features/Startup-Repair

Method 2: This can happen if the video card drivers do not work or is corrupted so uninstalling and reinstalling might solve the problem several times so try uninstall the drivers from Device Manager. Follow the steps below:

1. Click Start, in the search box type Device Manager and press to enter.

2. Device Manager window opens, expand sound, video and game controllers.

3. double click and go to the tab drivers.

4. click on the tab to uninstall to uninstall.

5 restart the system, it will reinstall the drivers again.

Method 3: You can uninstall Norton and install Microsoft Security Essentials of Microsoft and check if it works very well.

http://www.Microsoft.com/security/PC-security/MSE.aspx

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