Re: SP2 Incompatible with my computer (ASUS P4C800, 9600SE, SATA)

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:29:58 -0700

Its the SATA drives doing it. In your bios go to legacy
support for SATA should work then. I have a suttle XPC
with the same problem. Others have worked around it
changeing to Legacy SATA. Xp sp2 seems to be barfing when
you have ONLY sata drives.

Cody
accounts@gmail.com

>-----Original Message-----
>Mmm, what BIOS version do you use? Asus has finished the
1017.004 BIOS
>version - available for download/update at Asus sites in
Germany and
>Taiwan... maybe asus.com too.
>Otherwise, temporarily disable Hyper Threading and leave
all other Advanced
>Settings on Standard or Auto.
>Another thing to try, revert to XP original vga drivers.
>Michael
>
>"Nikos Andreou" <Nikos Andreou@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:AC943852-D4AC-45E7-9613-11D9AF7F8D7C@microsoft.com...
>> Hello Matthew
>>
>> I have a similar problem ie, my PC freezes at the
windows XP logo after
>> 2-4
>> passes of the bar. I tried booting in Safe Mode and as
you said it freezes
>> at
>> agp440.sys. I tried playing a bit with the BIOS
settings. Before I
>> continue
>> here's my PC h/w:
>>
>> P4@3.0 PRESCOTT, Apogee 9PJL mobo, 1.5 GB of RAM, 80
Gig WD SATA, Radeon
>> 9600XT/TVD....
>>
>> So, you noticed the Prescott, right? I tried to
deactivate the CPU L1\L2
>> Cache option in BIOS and it passed that point. It boots
in both Safe mode
>> and
>> Normal Mode. Problem is that it takes time. A PC with
no cache is a
>> Ferrari
>> with a Yugo engine. For a start, I would recommend to
make this change and
>> see how it goes. If it boots, I recommend calling MS
and report that
>> problem.
>> I already did that but had no luck with their help but
still it was
>> reported
>> and registered.
>>
>> Please let me know what happened. I am v. curious....
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Nikos Andreou
>>
>> "Matthew Harrison" wrote:
>>
>>> I have a P4C800 Deluxe M/B, 200Gig Seagate SATA drive,
1GB memory and
>>> 9600SE video card.
>>>
>>> The service pack installs fine, but on reboot it
crashes @ agp440.sys.
>>>
>>> Disabling agp440.sys, just moves the crash to the
driver before (so
>>> obviously the problem occurs after agp440.sys).
>>>
>>> Have tried a normal upgrade (from my original setup),
an upgrade from a
>>> full SP1 install (including drivers), an upgrade from
a full SP1 install
>>> (with nil drivers) and installing from a slipstreamed
SP2 CD (self made).
>>>
>>> All exhibit exactly the same issue.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do ?
>>>
>>>
>
>
>.
>

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