Stuck with pre boot mode on screen

Hello,
Restart the computer and tap F8 until you see the options to boot to safe mode. Use the arrow keys to highlight safe with networking and hit enter. Once you are inside safe mode, then do a system restore.

David

Sound like you might be be booting from your hard drive or you might have a music cd or movie dvd in the CD/DvD Drive. When you turn the machine on watch the screen and see what key it says to hit to Change the Boot Sequence or Boot Order, then hit that key while the message is displayed. Select your hard drive as the boot device and then see if it boots.

If it boots you need to reboot and watch the screen again to see what key it says to hit to get into the Bios or System Setup. Once in the Bios or System Setup tab over to the Boot Sequence or Boot Order and make your cd drive the 1st Boot Device and the Hard Drive the 2nd. This will make the change permanent, whereas the change we did before is only for that boot cycle. When you boot just make sure nothing is in the CD/DvD Drive.

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Try to boot the computer in safe mode. Turn off the computer then turn it back on. keep on tapping F8 then select SAFE MODE form the selections. If your computer wont able to boot to safe mode then you have a corrupted operating system. You need to reinstall windows using the recovery disk that came with the sytem.

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bad video card

Try this and see if it fixes it for you...first disable bluetooth on your unit.

1. Power off the unit.

2. HOLD down the power button and you will see "Pre Boot Mode" appear on the lower part of the display. KEEP HOLDING the power button down and the display will flicker, do this until the pre boot mode message disappears. This seems to take a long time (60 seconds at least).

3. Once the pre boot mode message disappears release the power button and your device will perform some activites to recover from problem.

Just had this problem over the weekend. I emailed Garmin and received a zipped file to reinstall original software with step by step instructions. It took about 6 minutes to do and works perfect again. Go to the Garmin website and email "software system missing" issue to support email address. Have your serial # handy. I received a reply in 1 business day. Hope this helps!

Press F8 during startup to show the boot options. Boot to VGA mode (if available) or safe mode and change your resolution in windows to the recommended 1280X1080. To do this in XP just right click on the desktop and select 'properties', click on the right-most tab and move the slider.

In Vista this would be right-click desktop, select 'personalise', click 'display settings' and move slider.

Hope this helps,

erch.

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Are you running this unit while it is charging? Does the Nuvi 660 have a sufficient charge?

Try to do a hard reset on the unit.