PLEASE HELP can't see the bootime Scan Screen

[Zantonian]

I cant see the bootime Scan Screen when I do a bootime scan, so I do not know what to do and press for moving to chest  etc. I think it is in the dos/command/bios screen thingy the blue or black screen showing you what is being scaned and what to do for example: press 7 to move to chest press 5 to do whatever etc



please help!!!!!
Anton

[igor]

What operating system is that?
What computer is that? (notebook, desktop, basic HW configuration...)

[Zantonian]

Windows XP

[Zantonian]

Sorry Desktop
Windows XP

[Asyn]

Windows XP

Do you have SP3?
asyn

[Zantonian]

no i think it's still sp2

[Zantonian]

its working fine on my home pc but here at work i can't see the screen showing the files being scanned
Even when i use system mechanics reg cleaner and do a reg compressing ( which normally shows during startup) there is only a blank screen

[Zantonian]

do you thinks my BIOS/Command Screen is Stuffed?

[igor]

Please post the content of the file C:\boot.ini

[Zantonian]

Humm I Hope This Is It:



[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /noguiboot


Thanks

[Asyn]

no i think it's still sp2

Regardless to your problem, I would update to SP3, asap...!! (If you are on a 32 bit system..!)
asyn

[igor]

Interesting...

The parameter /noguiboot is most likely causing the problem. If you remove it (you may have to reset the attributes of the file first, because it's probably set to read-only / system / hidden and you couldn't store the changes otherwise), it should be fixed, most likely without any side effects (unless you have tools like SoftIce installed ).
However, avast! should be looking for that parameter and remove it temporarily... I'll check if it works.

What version of avast! do you have - 4 or 5?

[Zantonian]

I'm using V5
And yes i Had Softice on but its uninstalled now. (don't ask)

[igor]

Well, you can remove that switch. The worst thing that can happen (unless you change anything else in the boot.ini file!) is that the SoftIce screen will be corrupted... in which case you can put it there back later.

[Zantonian]

Ok I deleted that part and saved it.

Should I restart? will it crash the system? is tit save?