On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:29:38PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > I think it means "pick 'safe' settings for your video card and don't > start up any fancy services so that, maybe, the user can fix what's > broke". Remember that Windows doesn't know what a "virtual console" > is and _always_ needs a graphics card and mouse. Perhaps it uses the standard bios interfaces only when in "safe mode". IIRC the standard vga bios interface is limited to a 640x480 resolution. Cheers, Joost