Re: System Hanging on AGP440.SYS after SP2 install

From: Cari \(MS MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 08/21/04


Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:00:28 -0700

Hey KoolerKat can you email me direct, email address is at my website under
my sig.

I'm trying to put together a list of motherboards affected by this. So far
ALLhave i865/i875 chipset and Prescott CPUs.

Thanks

-- 
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com
"Koolerkat" <Koolerkat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:9E57345A-E831-412B-9272-6847F54D4B89@microsoft.com...
> While KBA-324764 correctly describes the system hanging in safe mode after
> loading agp440.sys I do not understand why this still wouldn't be a 
> problem
> after the L1/L2 cache was disabled.
>
> After the L1/L2 was disabled the system booted without error - horrible
> performance of course, but it booted.  This would indicate that the 
> problem
> is not video card driver related.  Many of the users reporting this type 
> of
> problem appear to have a Prescott CPU.  Getting around the boot problem by
> disabling the L1/L2 cache would seem to indicate that the problem is 
> related
> to a CPU/bus synch issue.
>
> By the way, I uninstalled SP2 and went back to a restore point.  I am 
> going
> to wait on a more definative response before updating any more Prescott 
> based
> systems.
>
> "Cari (MS MVP)" wrote:
>
>> See the KB article at:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324764&Product=winxp
>>
>> -- 
>> Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
>> www.coribright.com
>>
>> "Pat Thielen" <loki@visi.com> wrote in message
>> news:897601c4859d$b2e63ed0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> >  Hi there,
>> >  I installed service pack 2 for Windows XP on four PCs
>> > today, and they all worked without any problem except for
>> > one. For some reason, it hangs on the agp440.sys file,
>> > and I cannot boot into safe mode or anything - it always
>> > hangs on this file. So I reinstalled Windows, and
>> > thinking perhaps the file may be corrupt in SP2, I copied
>> > SP2 over again and reinstalled it. I got the exact same
>> > problem.
>> >  The system I'm trying to install this to has an Intel
>> > Desktop Board D875PBZ motherboard, a P4/3.0 gig Intel
>> > processor, 1 gig of RAM, and has the Intel drivers
>> > installed (you need them for networking). That's really
>> > about it - if anyone has any ideas of what may be causing
>> > this I'd really like to hear them. Apparantly the Service
>> > Pack 2 won't work on this particular PC...
>> >
>> >   Thanks much,
>> >
>> >   -Pat Thielen-
>> >   loki@visi.com
>>
>>
>> 


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