System Hanging on AGP440.SYS after SP2 install

[Pat Thielen]

Hi there,
I installed service pack 2 for Windows XP on four PCs
today, and they all worked without any problem except for
one. For some reason, it hangs on the agp440.sys file,
and I cannot boot into safe mode or anything - it always
hangs on this file. So I reinstalled Windows, and
thinking perhaps the file may be corrupt in SP2, I copied
SP2 over again and reinstalled it. I got the exact same
problem.
The system I'm trying to install this to has an Intel
Desktop Board D875PBZ motherboard, a P4/3.0 gig Intel
processor, 1 gig of RAM, and has the Intel drivers
installed (you need them for networking). That's really
about it - if anyone has any ideas of what may be causing
this I'd really like to hear them. Apparantly the Service
Pack 2 won't work on this particular PC...

Thanks much,

-Pat Thielen-
(e-mail address removed)

 

[SlowJet]

Search on MS for that agp440.sys file for the correct
proceedure,
but basically press F12 when you see the install messages
at the bottom of the screen,
Once is probably enough but some times it's hard to say
when to do it.

You vedio driver may need to be reinstalled after you get
WIN installed.


SJ

 

[Guest]

I had the same experience. Worked fine until I applied SP2 to a Prescott
machine. Another post suggested to disable L1/L2 caching. I did that and
got past the boot blockage. Given that experiment, it would appear that the
issue is a BIOS related one.

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

See the KB article at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324764&Product=winxp

 

[Guest]

While KBA-324764 correctly describes the system hanging in safe mode after
loading agp440.sys I do not understand why this still wouldn't be a problem
after the L1/L2 cache was disabled.

After the L1/L2 was disabled the system booted without error - horrible
performance of course, but it booted. This would indicate that the problem
is not video card driver related. Many of the users reporting this type of
problem appear to have a Prescott CPU. Getting around the boot problem by
disabling the L1/L2 cache would seem to indicate that the problem is related
to a CPU/bus synch issue.

By the way, I uninstalled SP2 and went back to a restore point. I am going
to wait on a more definative response before updating any more Prescott based
systems.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Hi KoolerKat

Does the problem recur if you re-enable L1/L2 cache AFTER SP2 is
successfully installed? I know several folks (including myself on a P4
Prescott) are waiting for updated BIOSes after failures but it's dependent
on the motherboard manufacturers getting to work on them....! (the old
hurry up and wait theory)

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

To go slightly deeper, it ONLY seems to occur on certain Intel i865/i8756
chipset PCs. Personally I used the ASR (Automatic System Recovery) wizard,
having done a backup onto my D: drive. The ASR has gotten me out of several
very deep holes!

I agree that since AGP440.sys appears to be loading, it's whatever comes
AFTER that that is causing the problem, but what the next one is, I don't
know since I never see it!

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

Hey KoolerKat can you email me direct, email address is at my website under
my sig.

I'm trying to put together a list of motherboards affected by this. So far
ALLhave i865/i875 chipset and Prescott CPUs.

Thanks

 

[Jens]

Hey KoolerKat can you email me direct, email address is at my website under
my sig.

I'm trying to put together a list of motherboards affected by this. So far
ALLhave i865/i875 chipset and Prescott CPUs.

FYI, I have the same problem after loaded SP2, but my mb has the i845
cipset. Iäve tried both to install SP2 on an exising systtem and
install a slipstreamed XP with SP2 from scratch but with the same
reult. Only solution is to disable agp440 but then I cant add any
grapiccard once the XP is loaded

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

What CPU do you have Jens?

See: http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7447