NOT an ntldr is missing question, but a problem

[jeffkrol]

Ever since I upgraded to an nvidia chipset based MB I've had this issue w
ntldr.
Long story short, at SP@ I couldn't boot into Windows XP Home. Tried MS
support and a host of other places but no luck. No minidumps and the BSOD was
not helpful.
BUT I could boot to XP using the VGA switch in boot.ini.
Anyways after a bit of trial and error I found that if I replace the ntldr
progam from SP@ w/ the original ntldr program on my XP CD all was fine. well
it's SP time again and apparently the ntldr file was changed again so the
very same problem occurrs.
As I type XP is fine after booting into vga mode and the recofiguring my
display so it's viewable I know I can just set boot.ini to always boot
into vga mode but after years I really want to try to solve this annoying
problem. I'm pretty sure someday my ntldr swap will not work and have yet to
attempt it w/ SP3 installed.
Anyone see such a crazy problem?
MS support once inferred it was due to an incompatability w/ my AMD64 CPU.
Crazy huh?

 

[jeffkrol]

Thought I should add the specific BSOD:
Stop 0x0000007E
(0xC0000005, 0x00000000, 0xF79AF0c0, oxF79AEDBC)
Never helped before but who knows.
Tomorrow I will just extract the old ntldr from my XP disc and see what
happens.
One thing is the computer does seem a bit slower to boot up this way (VGA
Mode)but that could be my imagination....

 

[David Webb]

Check this out:
How to troubleshoot a Stop 0x0000007E error in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330182

More can be found via Google. Use 0x0000007E for the search criterion.

 

[jeffkrol]

Thanks Dave, tried almost every one of those. Main problem is windows works
fine, once started so much of this probably doesn't apply. Had even bought a
new graphics card but that didn't help either. Why it boots in vga mode yet
nvidia drivers are fine and up to date. Found that this issue could occur w/
some systems running AMD processors but the control set had some value wrong
regarding an intel part
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3276751&SiteID=17
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900485