Dr. Bill wrote:
> Allen Balthrop wrote:
>> Hello,
>
> Do you like pork pie?
> http://piecrust-design.co.uk/piepages/images/pork.jpg
It'll take his mind off agp440.sys.
>> 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.
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