XP Service Pack 2 causes computer to hang on boot

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After successfully installing SP2 (from MSDN ISO image) on a spare
machine at work, I tried it on my home PC. It nows hangs on boot.
Running safe mode reveals that it is hanging at AGP440.sys, but even
safe mode won't boot. Neither will "last known good".

What now?
 
I can't try it now. I booted from the CD and chose the repair
install, but now the computer is in a permanent loop of saying 'setup
is now restarting' and then rebooting.
 
I tried using the repair install, but it left the computer in a very
bad state (most hardware devices were not working). I did a new
install, erasing the original Windows directory (not formatting drive,
though). It came up fine. Before installing any new programs or
drivers, I figured that would be a good time to install SP2, so there
wouldn't be any conflicts.

I'm back in the same spot - it won't boot. Safe mode doesn't work.
VGA mode doesn't work.
 
I am also experiencing this same problem. I also have a Prescott
processor too, maybe its incompatibile...
 
Hi Nikos,

Thanks for your message, I shall try that tonight.

I have a similarish setup, with a [email protected], an ASUS board and (I
think) a Radion 9500.

I have an identical problem. It seems that this problem has been
around for a while and one of the KB articles on Microsoft's site
suggested that it might be the case that in multiprocessor boxes one
processor was intialising the AGP card, whilst the other had already
started using it. I wonder if the hyperthreading stuff might have
caused this symptom, so I turned it off, but to no success.

George
 
I have a Prescott (2.8E) as well. I didn't try disabling the cache, but
I did try disabling Hyperthreading, and that didn't do anything.

As has been mentioned in some other posts in here, I have SATA as my
only drive. I've read through the posts, and it's not quite clear which
one seems to be the problem.

I've tried to enable boot logging, but there is never a file written to
the disk.
 
Wahoo! After several hours of research and trying lots of stuff, I found out
that my BIOS was way out of date, even though my mobo is only 2 months old.
It's an Intel D865PERL motherboard (I think D865 is the base model and PERL
identifies the options). I had the "P09" BIOS, and the latest is "P19". I
downloaded P19 from Intel, hooked up a USB floppy and flashed the new BIOS.
XP booted right up after that. Check your BIOS!

-James
 
Hi, all!
I also have the same problem with installing
sp2.(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en)
I tried to install it on several PCs.
There are no problems with this configuration:
Intel Pentium 4 2,2MHz/MB ASUS P4B533 i845E/GeForce4 MX-440SE

But THERE IS A PROBLEM with 10 PCs with the following configuration:
Intel Pentium 4 2,4MHz/MB ASUS P4P800S i848P/WinFast A180 64Mb(GeForce4
MX-440E)
They hang up after reboot after installing SP2.
agp440.sys - is the last string during SAFE MODE boot.
these 10 motherboards have the following BIOS:
AMI, version 08.00.09, built date: 10/23/03

Any ideas?
 
I have an identical problem. It seems that this problem has been
around for a while and one of the KB articles on Microsoft's site
suggested that it might be the case that in multiprocessor boxes one
processor was intialising the AGP card, whilst the other had already
started using it. I wonder if the hyperthreading stuff might have
caused this symptom, so I turned it off, but to no success.

George
Click to expand...

I stumbled upon that KB article as well (it was originally written for
Windows 2000 SP2). So likewise I went ahead and attempted to disable
hyperthreading, use a PCI video card (Voodoo Banshee), for the install
to use a single processor HAL, and combinations thereof. However all
these didn't work for me (I am using an Abit AI7 mobo w/ P2.8E). When
using a PCI graphics card, the system halts at the mup.sys (or
ac2003.sys if I install my sound card) so I don't believe the article
applies. I will be updating my BIOS tonight to the latest version
and see if that does the trick.
 
Same problem here with a Shuttle/2.8GHz Presscott.
Stops on atisgkaf.sys. If I rename that it stops at MUP.sys.

How did the BIOS update go?

:-(
Rob
 
Exact same problem. it appears to be the 3.0 Prescott proc. with the 1MB
cache. The 3.2 proc. with the 512 cache works fine!

Someone must have done something at MS because SP2 does not download to my
machine, even set on auto update.
 
Exact same problem. it appears to be the 3.0 Prescott proc. with the 1MB
cache. The 3.2 proc. with the 512 cache works fine!

Someone must have done something at MS because SP2 does not download to my
machine, even set on auto update.
 

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