xp sp2 and no boot, no safe mode

[jeffk55]

Quick story, Replaced a dead MB w/ new MB, CPU, and PS. Did a repair install of XP. Everything was fine. Had a disc (SP2 )so I didn't have to go and re-download the upgrade. Well that didn't go so well. Kept getting a reboot. Tried safe mode... no go...
Did the "don't auto boot on error" and got the dreaded
0x0000007e error. Checked MS and no help there. None of the things seemed to apply (maybe MB BIOS, Chaintech vnf3-250)> But here's the weird thing. If I boot into VGA mode EVERYTHING works right. Of couse I have to tweak the display properties to get back to a decent view. Only difference between VGA mode and Safe mode seems to be the loading of vga.sys (in safe mode) and loading my nVidia Quadro4 drivers in low resolution mode.
On the surface seems to point to a corrupt vga.sys file. Plenty of HD space ect.
Anyoneone w/ a clue???????? I'm stumped..

 

[deathwalker]

once you have booted in the VGA mode have you tried unintalling your graphics driver and reinstalling them?

 

[jeffk55]

Yes, more than once... The nVidia drivers work fine once I get booted. It;s just somewhere in the initail boot that I'm stuck.

 

[andyd00]

I just read this problem on another site. The guy with prob had to do teh same boot vga.
He said he would have to do that every time until he decided not to repair the vga driver when it asks to and rebooted and it strangely just started working. I read it read when I was looking up forums about that motherboard with agp and pci-e setup.

 

[jeffk55]

Thanks. Unfortunately mine has not gone away by itself. Just got done dumping a whole bunch of software out as well as adding some PCI cards back in. Figured what the heck they worked w/ XP for years...
Anyway same old same old. Now I just have it set to not reboot so I can SEE the eroor code and if it changes. Doesn't. Maybe I'll just rename vga.sys and see what happens
BTW: Win never asks to repair anything in regards to drivers so far

 

[jeffk55]

Reposted this in OS forum. BTW Still no solutions.

 

[kitkat22]

format and reinstall