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John E.
Win XP home SP2 on Dell 8250. Here is the sequence of events. I was trying
to run Error Checking by using Properties/Tool on C: drive. It would not
fix errors until I restarted. So I restarted and got a flash error message
on a Command screen which happened so quickly I couldn't read it, but
something about couldn't access a Windows file. So I ran chkdsk c: in the
cmd window. This seemed to work and found some errors. So I ran chkdsk
c:/f, which said I needed to restart. But when I restarted, nothing
happened, loaded windows normally. So I thought I would try it in Safe
Mode. Safe mode only loaded partially before freezing up, last file to load
was System32\drivers\agp440.sys. I have tried this several times with the
same result. I restored the last changes I made to the registry using
Registry Mechanic. This did not resovle either problem. Since WinXP was
installed as OEM by Dell, the only CD I have is the one supplied by Dell.
When I tried to use it, it said that the current version of Windows I was
using was newer than the one on the CD, so I backed out of that. I could
start going through System Restore points to see if I get to one that works,
but thought I would check in here first. Any ideas?
Thanks
to run Error Checking by using Properties/Tool on C: drive. It would not
fix errors until I restarted. So I restarted and got a flash error message
on a Command screen which happened so quickly I couldn't read it, but
something about couldn't access a Windows file. So I ran chkdsk c: in the
cmd window. This seemed to work and found some errors. So I ran chkdsk
c:/f, which said I needed to restart. But when I restarted, nothing
happened, loaded windows normally. So I thought I would try it in Safe
Mode. Safe mode only loaded partially before freezing up, last file to load
was System32\drivers\agp440.sys. I have tried this several times with the
same result. I restored the last changes I made to the registry using
Registry Mechanic. This did not resovle either problem. Since WinXP was
installed as OEM by Dell, the only CD I have is the one supplied by Dell.
When I tried to use it, it said that the current version of Windows I was
using was newer than the one on the CD, so I backed out of that. I could
start going through System Restore points to see if I get to one that works,
but thought I would check in here first. Any ideas?
Thanks