I have a similar problem to whats posted here, as I had to replace the motherboard/cpu/ram combo in an HP machine.
WinXP Home will crash and reboot the machine before it reaches the loading screen. It hung on AGP440.sys when booting to safe mode, so I thought that it was the video drivers holding it up. Booting into the recovery console with a tool from Microsoft, I disabled that service, as well as ran a chkdsk /r.
Several boots later, many more services are disabled that it apparently hung on, and it now hands after the last service gets loaded - presumably when it tries to load the video. I just need it to get to safe mode so I can start exchanging drivers!
Because HP is such a loving company, the restore disks that they gave out will only reimage a drive if it exactly matches that hardware configuration. I am now just left with a broken install and an XP Home key.
Running an 'upgrade' or 'repair' install from an XP Home disk should take care of the problem, yes, but I don't have one.
Short of warez'ing an XP Pro installation, how can I get this machine to boot to safe mode?
Update:
Ok, so I have some disks now.
I get a bluescreen from the WinXP disc - a Stop 19, bad pool caller, and occasionally a Stop 50, page fault in nonpaged area.
This usually means bad memory, so I swapped out the memory with a stick of working ram from the machine I'm posting on. Doing so didn't help - I got the same errors.
Swapping the slots that the memory is in didn't help, and neither did unplugging the hard drive.
What's interesting, though, is the difference between service pack discs:
XP Pro Service Pack 1 CD DOES boot without a problem;
XP Pro SP2 CD and XP Home SP2 CD DOES NOT boot.
This kind of difference shouldn't be there, since I thought the service pack didn't change the booting code, but its there and it happens. I don't get it.
I tried google and the MSI page, but no dice.
Here's whats in the machine:
MSI K8NGM2-L (shipped with case/psu from Newegg)
AMD64 3000+ Venice
Corsair Value Ram, DDR400 256mb, x2
update:
The problem seemed to be the CD drives that came with the old machine - PSU went out and apparently damaged them too. I booted it up easily with a known working drive.
More tests; the file system on the HD is corrupted, but the physical drive is in good shape. It might require a reformat to get past the STOP 7E errors.
Resolved:
CPU Spread Spectrum, which is enabled by default, causes the booting errors. I did, though, have to do a fresh install anyway.
WinXP Home will crash and reboot the machine before it reaches the loading screen. It hung on AGP440.sys when booting to safe mode, so I thought that it was the video drivers holding it up. Booting into the recovery console with a tool from Microsoft, I disabled that service, as well as ran a chkdsk /r.
Several boots later, many more services are disabled that it apparently hung on, and it now hands after the last service gets loaded - presumably when it tries to load the video. I just need it to get to safe mode so I can start exchanging drivers!
Because HP is such a loving company, the restore disks that they gave out will only reimage a drive if it exactly matches that hardware configuration. I am now just left with a broken install and an XP Home key.
Running an 'upgrade' or 'repair' install from an XP Home disk should take care of the problem, yes, but I don't have one.
Short of warez'ing an XP Pro installation, how can I get this machine to boot to safe mode?
Update:
Ok, so I have some disks now.
I get a bluescreen from the WinXP disc - a Stop 19, bad pool caller, and occasionally a Stop 50, page fault in nonpaged area.
This usually means bad memory, so I swapped out the memory with a stick of working ram from the machine I'm posting on. Doing so didn't help - I got the same errors.
Swapping the slots that the memory is in didn't help, and neither did unplugging the hard drive.
What's interesting, though, is the difference between service pack discs:
XP Pro Service Pack 1 CD DOES boot without a problem;
XP Pro SP2 CD and XP Home SP2 CD DOES NOT boot.
This kind of difference shouldn't be there, since I thought the service pack didn't change the booting code, but its there and it happens. I don't get it.
I tried google and the MSI page, but no dice.
Here's whats in the machine:
MSI K8NGM2-L (shipped with case/psu from Newegg)
AMD64 3000+ Venice
Corsair Value Ram, DDR400 256mb, x2
update:
The problem seemed to be the CD drives that came with the old machine - PSU went out and apparently damaged them too. I booted it up easily with a known working drive.
More tests; the file system on the HD is corrupted, but the physical drive is in good shape. It might require a reformat to get past the STOP 7E errors.
Resolved:
CPU Spread Spectrum, which is enabled by default, causes the booting errors. I did, though, have to do a fresh install anyway.
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