sp2 fails with SATA drives

[cody]

My specs

Shuttle sb62g2
One and only device an SATA drive.
No ide cdrom nothing just the ONE sata drive. No raid just
one drive.
I use a usb cdrom to load xp

Install a fresh install of xp then sp2 machine reboots and
fails.

Same machine remove sata drive, fresh install xp to an ide
drive sp2 works.

I think its the sata enhanced mode doing this. And
causeing the hang on reboot.

 

[Alan Klietz]

In

My specs

Shuttle sb62g2
One and only device an SATA drive.
No ide cdrom nothing just the ONE sata drive. No raid just
one drive.
I use a usb cdrom to load xp

Install a fresh install of xp then sp2 machine reboots and
fails.

Same machine remove sata drive, fresh install xp to an ide
drive sp2 works.

I think its the sata enhanced mode doing this. And
causeing the hang on reboot.

I have a hunch this is due to a buggy DMA driver for your SATA driver that
is barfing on the new Data Execute Protection (DEP) in XP SP2. XP SP2 turns
on hardware-level Data Execute Protection (DEP) on processors that support
it, e.g., AMD Opteron. As a side effect it must turn on Processor Address
Extensions (PAE). PAE can hose up DMA transfers if the driver violates the
HAL drives and tries to, for example, manipulate the Page Table Entries
(PTEs) directly.

As a workaround try turning off DEP. Edit C:\BOOT.INI and change
"/NoExecute=OptOut" to "/NoExecute=AlwaysOff". This will turn off DEP. You
will need to remove the System + Hidden + Readonly flags:

ATTRIB -S -H -R C:\BOOT.INI
NOTEPAD BOOT.INI (Change to /NoExecute=AlwaysOff)
ATTRIB +S +H +R C:\BOOT.ini

Regards,
Alan Klietz
Algin Technology LLC
alank at algintech dot com

 

[Rob Chandler [MVP]]

Cody here's my experience
a.. I have a Shuttle ST61G4 PC / Prescott 2.8GHz CPU / 2x Seagate 80G SATA
Raid 0 configuration / 1G Ram
b.. Install Windows MCE Disk 1 & 2.
c.. Install the new XPSP2 and I can no longer boot (locks half way through
loading drivers)
d.. Safe mode tells me atisgkaf.sys is last loaded. I renamed this file
and now it says loading driver MUP.sys and locks so it looks like a driver
after this is causing the problem.
e.. I reinstalled SP1 and have blocked XP2 updates via the registry
setting.
I recorded the Olympics opening on the Shuttle last night so don't want to
try anything for a few days

Rob :-(