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XP only starts in Safe/Cmd mode, well maybe
micky wrote:
Well, I guess I'm being punished for trying to cheat Toyota out of its $535 dollars. After installing a different download of Techstream, XP won't start anymore. This Acer netbook has no CD drive, but I can probably copy a CD to a flashdrive. Trying in safe mode, the last line to display is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system 32\drivers\agpCPQ.sys IIRC, it's not this line that is the problem but the next one, and of course I don't know what the next one is. At one point years ago, I knew where the 2 lists that had the files in start-up order were. But I forget. Is agpCPQ.sys the problem, or is it the one in the next line? ==== We interrupt this problem to give an important message. After failing to start 6 times or more, I started in command mode, then used task manager to restart, then used F2 to go into the BIOS to see if I could boot from a USB drive (probably), then I exited discarding changes, and then it booted all the way into windows. How could that happen? What happened? Am I out of the woods? I haven't rebooted yet. I'm too scared! Plus, not positive, but I don't think this had anything to do with Techstream. This different version starts like the previous one, but it still won't accept the key that is supposed to work. Even though the previous version would only run on XP and not on 7 or later, and that's what I've got, considering that two version have had the same problem, I'm beginning to thing the problem is me, and not the software. This version installed with no error messages at all. Continuing with the problem: And even when I used XP all the time, when I'd have a problem like this, I wondered why there wasn't an easy way to skip problem steps. Was there? Is there? Anyhow, I'm googling the file name now and there are a lot of hits, but if you guys know an easy fix, please let me know. This is interesting. I tried to start in safe mode with command prompt, and it still stopped on the line above, but after a couple minutes, it still brought up the command prompt. That was very thoughtful of MSoft And I can run msconfig with start msconfig . It's amazing that I remembered this. Now I think I remember the lists, system.ini and win.ini. No, I went to win.ini and used the cmd command edit, and it has no sys files. Oops, now I don't know how to get out of Edit. IIUC I should get a good copy of agpCPQ.sys, or the one in the following line** that I don't see, and r-eplace the one that is on this computer. **I still don't remember where those lists are, and googling keeps coming up with hits that assume windows is running, like use msconfig.exe. Rather than being punished, you should have scanned the file on Virustotal.com first. As a quick check it's not an exploit, or salted by Toyota on purpose :-) And why are you using "suspect" software on a computer that doesn't have backups ? If I was forced into using software like that, I'd have my hip waders and rubber gloves on. It would be backup first. Make sure other computers are switched off (no SMB hacks). And so on. If I need to "dissect" an installer, I drop the package into Linux and WINE, and have the installer create plaintext for analysis. Once it thinks it has won, by dropping the goodies into the WINE Program Files folder, I can have a look at what I got. I might even make a list of WINE files before and after the install. And so on. I use the two temp folders in WINE quite a lot, and bring back partially decompressed content, for analysis back in Windows. This is why I can't test a lot of software in a hurry, because it takes time to put on the rubber gloves. ******* Do you have a URL for the download you used ? You'll probably have this fixed, before I'm even got my WINE fired up. Paul |
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