BIG SP2 issue (agp440.sys)

[John Starks]

I just installed SP2 from the network installer (I have 3
pc's in me house) and one of them will not boot. it ahngs
at agp440.sys. I tried lkgc, i can't get into safe mode.

I have seen other post with this problem, they can't even
fix it by doing a clean install. Anyone have any idea
about what I might try to fix this?

SP2 is going fine on my other PC's, but i'm not sure why
this one is any different.

 

[Jerry]

Is there a difference in the video between the three?

 

[Guest]

SATA drives? Please post your config.

Go to your bios check your sata setting if you have those.
and try and change to legacy support.

cody
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

I just installed SP2 from the network installer (I have 3
pc's in me house) and one of them will not boot. it ahngs
at agp440.sys. I tried lkgc, i can't get into safe mode.

I have seen other post with this problem, they can't even
fix it by doing a clean install. Anyone have any idea
about what I might try to fix this?

SP2 is going fine on my other PC's, but i'm not sure why
this one is any different.

Isn't this a video driver? Reboot and hammer the F8 key as the XP boot
screen displays and select "enable vga mode". XP should boot with an
alternate VGA driver and allow you to update/rollback/whatever your
video driver.

 

[Apoptic]

I have the same problem.

Booting in VGA mode, or any safe mode does not work. Recovery console
is also not working.

Mobo is an ASUS P4C800, no SATA drives just IDE. Prescott 2.8 CPU.

 

[Tyler Van Gorder]

I have the same problem.

Booting in VGA mode, or any safe mode does not work. Recovery console
is also not working.

Mobo is an ASUS P4C800, no SATA drives just IDE. Prescott 2.8 CPU.

I am having the same issue, I have an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard.

I have tried disabling the agp440 driver through recovery console and booting
into safe mode just results in the OS hanging on the driver prior to agp400.

Therefore, it appears to be dying at some point after agp440, perhaps its an
issue with the bios on the ASUS motherboards? I had tried diabling hyperthreads,
usb, integrated network card, removing the CD rom, and all result in the
same hang.

I have since rolled back to SP 1 and things are working again. So what do we
do to get this working correctly? Contact Asus?

 

[x]

The post you replied to mentioned having a Prescott. That seems to be
floating around in many of these threads about hanging at AGP440.sys
after the SP2 install. I have yet to see anyone reply saying that they
have a Prescott and SP2 worked for them.

 

[Andrew Renner]

I had the same problem with the P4P800 Deluxe... it would halt on
agp440.sys - I would disable that then it would halt on mup.sys...
then ndis.sys... then ntfs.sys... at this point I re-enabled all of
the above sys files.

I updated the bios to version 1017 and boom everything worked!! So
the answer seems to be to update to the newest bios revision.

I am now having the same problem with the ASUS P4B-533 and the latest
update is not solving the issue. I have noticed that ASUS is pouring
out the Bios updates since the middle of August... so I may wait and
see for a couple days.

Anybody have any experience with the P4B533 and XP SP2?

Thanks,
Andrew