Can't reinstall WinXP from bootable CD.

From: Jose Z (tajoman_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:33:47 -0700

Hi,

Last night I wiped my partition of Win98SE and installed
XP. Everything was going fine until I installed SP2. Upon
rebooting the system hangs. It tried ALL the options
(safe modes, etc.) and NONE worked. On the safe modes I
saw that it got stuck on loading "agp400.sys".

a) I booted from the cd and disable agp400.sys
b) I was now able to boot up but the display was at
640x480 (and unchangeable)
c) I re-enabled agp400.sys and everything hung up again..
(doesn't boot)
d) I formatted (quick) and tried to reinstall.
e) The install process now hangs and the onscreen
graphics get corrupted.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Jose.

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