Help won't boot

[Dave]

Help,

I've got XP home and it won't boot. It gets to
xxx\windows\system32\drivers\agp440.sys and it hangs
there with a lot of disk activity and no booting. I
really don't want to reload everything if I don't have to.

Thanks in advance

 

[Malke]

Help,

I've got XP home and it won't boot. It gets to
xxx\windows\system32\drivers\agp440.sys and it hangs
there with a lot of disk activity and no booting. I
really don't want to reload everything if I don't have to.

Thanks in advance

It sounds like you are having problems with your agp drivers - did you
change your video drivers recently? Can you boot into Safe Mode and
either do a System Restore to when things were working or roll back
whatever driver you just updated. If you can't even get into Safe Mode,
then do a Repair Install. What changed between the time things worked
and the time they didn't?

Malke

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


It sounds like you are having problems with your agp drivers - did you
change your video drivers recently? Can you boot into Safe Mode and
either do a System Restore to when things were working or roll back
whatever driver you just updated. If you can't even get into Safe Mode,
then do a Repair Install. What changed between the time things worked
and the time they didn't?

Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"
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HI,

I have ot changed aything since the last time I used the
machine. I will not boot in any mode, safe, command
prompt, vga mode, etc.

I do not kow how to do a repair install. The quick
restore disks from Compaq do not seem to offer this
option. Only format and reload are offerred.

Dave

 

[Malke]

I have ot changed aything since the last time I used the
machine. I will not boot in any mode, safe, command
prompt, vga mode, etc.

I do not kow how to do a repair install. The quick
restore disks from Compaq do not seem to offer this
option. Only format and reload are offerred.

I'm sorry to hear that. You are pretty much hosed, then. I'd do some
hardware diagnostics first because if you didn't change anything, then
probably some piece of hardware failed. Try a different video card. If
the machine boots, even using just vga, you'll know where the problem
lies. Test the RAM, the motherboard, and the hard drive too if you
don't get anywhere with the video card swap. Or you can just stick in
Compaq's restore disk and start over, then restore your data from
backups. At this point, you might consider taking the computer to a
good local computer shop to test it for you. Around here, CompUSA is
the only Compaq-authorized repair place, but of course they won't
rescue your data first. You probably will want to slave the hard drive
in another machine to copy off your data if you neglected to make
backups.

HTH,

Malke