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Can not get into safe mode
My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of
the 3 safe modes available. The files that show roll by until they get to the same one and then everyting stops. The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc |
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Can not get into safe mode
"dsears" wrote in message
... My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of the 3 safe modes available. The files that show roll by until they get to the same one and then everyting stops. The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc Hi, agp440.sys is the last driver loaded. How long are you leaving it before you pull the plug, it can take several minutes (possibly 5+) to load the next. If you haven't already done so leave it alone and see what happens. Neil |
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You appear to have a corrupt boot.ini file. Try using the msconfig utility to
"Check All Boot Paths" as detailed in the following page: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000492.htm If still no joy, you'll have to rebuild the boot.ini file using the "bootcfg /rebuild" command from the Recovery Console. See this article for details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330184 "dsears" wrote in message ... My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of the 3 safe modes available. The files that show roll by until they get to the same one and then everyting stops. The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc |
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Can not get into safe mode
"dsears" wrote in message
... My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of the 3 safe modes available. The files that show roll by until they get to the same one and then everyting stops. The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc The files that scroll by are loading OK. It's telling you that the file agp440.sys Can't be loaded. The file is located in: The Boot drive which is usually C:\windows\system32\Drivers\ Hidden and system files will need to be set to show, in Folder Options, to see them. This would be a driver windows uses for the graphics card in safe mode or when a specific driver isn't installed. If you have an XP cd with the same service pack you're using now, you could just do a repair install with it. If it doesn't have the current SPk you could get a copy of agp440.sys from an older XP cd. It'd probably be in a CAB file so searching wouldn't be easy. Haven't had the "pleasure" of doing this yet on XP(or W2K for that matter) but was getting kind of good at it with W9x. May not fix it as something else could be keeping it from loading but replacing it would be where I'd start. It an unusual problem. I'd run checkdisk to see how the HDD is doing and run a virus scan. Good Luck |
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Can not get into safe mode
"dsears" wrote in message ... My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of the 3 safe modes available. The files that show roll by until they get to the same one and then everyting stops. The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc You can try installing the Recovery Console, so that you can get into safe mode anytime you want. |
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Can not get into safe mode
On Feb 6, 9:36*pm, dsears wrote:
My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of the 3 safe modes available. *The files that show roll by until *they get to the same one and then everyting stops. *The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. *The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc The driver is a generic display driver that is used in Safe Mode only and there is a problem with it, or with what comes after it (that you cannot see). It is not used on all systems, but must be used on your system of currently unknown type. There are several reasons this could be happening. Has it ever worked before in Safe Mode? Did you use msconfig to make any modifications to your boot.ini so it would boot into Safe Mode - like adding the /SAFEBOOT option? If you have modified the boot.ini, boot normally, rename the c: \boot.ini and reboot normally again. XP does not require a boot.ini file to boot. It will complain, but still boot. Then rename the old boot.ini back to the original, use msconfig to undo your boot.ini changes and approach your original unspecified issue in some other way. You could try a Repair install if you have an XP installation CD of the same vintage as your installation, but a lot of people don't have that. All we know about your system is it is XP. Not enough info for good advice on that. You could replace the suspicious file using an old one on your system from before your last SP installation but we are not even sure that is the problem file (it could be what comes after it) or what SP you are running. The old file would be found in the $NtServicePackUninstall folder. Might be an old one there, might not... Not the best idea to mess around with that stuff and be mixing files around. You could have forgotten a CD in your CD drive. If so, remove it. You could have a marginal USB device, so remove everything except the keyboard and try again until you can isolate the faulty device. It could also be a faulty CD drive. These are sometimes the next drivers that would load after agp440.sys and where it could be hanging. You could have a file system integrity problem on your HDD which you can resolve with chkdsk either the next time the system boots normally or run chkdsk from Recovery Console. Any power interruptions lately? Your system motherboard drivers could be out of date and conflicting with the agp440.sys file. This happens a lot when Windows updates are applied on top of older system board drivers. It may work just fine, maybe not... and then everybody screams at the Windows updates for their problems and breaking their system! This one is easy to resolve by just updating your motherboard chip set. If you need help figuring that out, do this: Please provide additional information about your system: Click Start, Run and in the box enter: msinfo32 Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here. There will be some personal information (like System Name and User Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete it from the pasted information. This will minimize back and forth Q&A and eliminate guesswork. For video driver information, expand the Components, click Display, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information. You can make a bootable Recovery Console CD as follows: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic276527.html You can also completely stop the driver from loading using Recovery Console, but that may just have it hang on the next driver and doesn't really figure out what is wrong (this is not always a good solution). Installing Recovery Console will not help you booting in Safe Mode. Installing RC is a good idea though, for just these situations - but you will need an XP installation CD of the same vintage as your installation - darn! But, you can make one of those too if you are so inclined. |
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Can not get into safe mode
THanks to all for the suggestions. There is a lot of info requested above
and I will get back in a couple of days with as many answers as possible. dsc "dsears" wrote: My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of the 3 safe modes available. The files that show roll by until they get to the same one and then everyting stops. The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc |
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neil: You were correct in that my impatience cause the problem. I waited
alot longer than I was used to. and it finally went through. Thanks for the help. dsc "neil" wrote: "dsears" wrote in message ... My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of the 3 safe modes available. The files that show roll by until they get to the same one and then everyting stops. The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc Hi, agp440.sys is the last driver loaded. How long are you leaving it before you pull the plug, it can take several minutes (possibly 5+) to load the next. If you haven't already done so leave it alone and see what happens. Neil . |
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Can not get into safe mode
On Feb 19, 12:48*am, dsears wrote:
neil: *You were correct in that my impatience cause the problem. *I waited alot longer than I was used to. and it finally went through. * Thanks for the help. dsc "neil" wrote: "dsears" wrote in message ... My computer, with XP, boots normally OK, however, I can not get into any of the 3 safe modes available. *The files that show roll by until *they get to the same one and then everyting stops. *The only way out of this is to pull the plug and restart the computer. *The file that it always stops on is: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)windows\system32\Drivers\agp440.sys Fortunately, I have not had to rely on getting in to Save Mode, but would sure like to get this fixed if possible. dsc Hi, agp440.sys is the last driver loaded. How long are you leaving it before you pull the plug, it can take several minutes (possibly 5+) to load the next. |
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