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I cannot get F8 to work on startup

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07-01-2009

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I cannot get F8 to work on startup

I need to get into safe mode, on my dell 17 laptop.

keying F8 on startup gives me a blank screen for half a min, then the startup recovery prog fires up.

Any ideas anyone, please ?

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