broken agp440.sys help needed...

Hello,

Sorry for the x post but I need help big time...

I installed a new motherboard and cpu in my system as I fried the old ones.

I did not do a clean install of Windows XP as my HP Pavilion system did not
come with any recovery cd's so I hooked my existing hard drive up to the
system and powered up.

Anyway, it powers up ok but the first time I switched it on there was a blue
error screen that flashed on for a second and then the system rebooted
itself.

Now when I power on I can get past the bios screen ok but before the windows
logo appears I get the boot menu offering safe mode , safe mode with
networking, normal mode etc. A message appears on this screen saying that
the options appear as windows xp did not shut down correctly etc etc

If I choose normal mode then a white progress bar at the bottom of the
screen appears, it gets to the end of it and sits there.....for ever. If I
choose safe mode then it shows it loading all the files from the hard drive
and it gets to a file agp440.sys and it sits there...forever. So whatever
this file is it is causing the system to hang,

Various fixes I have seen include getting into Windows and disabling the
agp440.sys service. But I cannot get into xp at all as my system did not
come with boot cd's.

I can boot to a win98 floppy ok but I cannot access drive c: as it is ntfs,
I thought maybe I could rename agp440.sys to something else.

Any ideas on how to get round this agp440.sys problem? I really don't
want to do a clean install as I have no win xp cd's. My hp pavilion system
contains it's setup files on some hidden partition on the drive.
But I can print.

Thanks,

td.

"Lesley Howard" <> wrote in
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news: ally.ugly.blondes...
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the x post but I need help big time...
>
> I installed a new motherboard and cpu in my system as I fried the old
ones.

You're more likely to get help if you don't cross post so much and don't let
your other personalities on the computer.

Without an XP CD you won't be able to do a recovery install. If you're lucky
you can put your drive into another PC that works and copy your important
files - but if they were really that important you would have backups
already, right?

Noozer wrote:
> "Lesley Howard" <> wrote in
> message
> news: ally.ugly.blondes...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry for the x post but I need help big time...
>>
>> I installed a new motherboard and cpu in my system as I fried the
>> old ones.
>
> You're more likely to get help if you don't cross post so much and
> don't let your other personalities on the computer.
>
> Without an XP CD you won't be able to do a recovery install. If
> you're lucky you can put your drive into another PC that works and
> copy your important files - but if they were really that important
> you would have backups already, right?

I have exactly the same problem, look, can you help?

Hello,

Sorry for the x post but I need help big time...

I installed a new motherboard and cpu in my system as I fried the old ones.

I did not do a clean install of Windows XP as my HP Pavilion system did not
come with any recovery cd's so I hooked my existing hard drive up to the
system and powered up.

Anyway, it powers up ok but the first time I switched it on there was a blue
error screen that flashed on for a second and then the system rebooted
itself.

Now when I power on I can get past the bios screen ok but before the windows
logo appears I get the boot menu offering safe mode , safe mode with
networking, normal mode etc. A message appears on this screen saying that
the options appear as windows xp did not shut down correctly etc etc

If I choose normal mode then a white progress bar at the bottom of the
screen appears, it gets to the end of it and sits there.....for ever. If I
choose safe mode then it shows it loading all the files from the hard drive
and it gets to a file agp440.sys and it sits there...forever. So whatever
this file is it is causing the system to hang,

Various fixes I have seen include getting into Windows and disabling the
agp440.sys service. But I cannot get into xp at all as my system did not
come with boot cd's.

I can boot to a win98 floppy ok but I cannot access drive c: as it is ntfs,
I thought maybe I could rename agp440.sys to something else.

Any ideas on how to get round this agp440.sys problem? I really don't
want to do a clean install as I have no win xp cd's. My hp pavilion system
contains it's setup files on some hidden partition on the drive.
But I can print.

Thanks

> I have exactly the same problem, look, can you help?
>
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the x post but I need help big time...
>
> I installed a new motherboard and cpu in my system as I fried the old
ones.
>

Is the new processor a prescott?

http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp