XP only starts in Safe/Cmd mode, well maybe

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.

In message , micky
writes:
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==== 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!

I know the feeling (-:! Probably worth getting ERUNT - that creates
restore that can be run from a command prompt, if you can boot that far.
Obviously a full imaging (such as Macrium) is better (with that, you
make a boot CD - I keep mine on a mini-CD), but an ERUNT restore is
quicker to try first, if you can at least get to a command prompt.
[]
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.

Alt-F (brings up the file menu - the mouse may also be working [probably
not if it's a USB one though]), then X for eXit.
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--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Security is the perfect excuse to lock you out of your own computer.
- Mayayana in alt.windows7.general, 2015-12-4

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.

A "different download" of Toyota's Techstream that is used with their
test tool. So just WHERE did you get the cracked copy of Techstream?
Why would you download that? Considering other sources of cracked or
warez software likely contains malware, guess it's time to restore your
OS/app partition(s) from your backups.

This is not a pro-pirating newsgroup. For help on keygen, crack, or
warez copies of software, there are other newsgroups for those.

This Acer netbook has no CD drive, but I can probably copy a CD to a
flashdrive.

You probably can use a USB-attached disc drive. Look in the BIOS to
see if boot order can use a USB device. Else, yeah, you'll have to set
BIOS to boot from the USB device and look online how to make bootable a
USB flash drive.

Trying in safe mode, the last line to display is

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system 32\drivers\agpCPQ.sys

The problem with that log display is it shows the LAST driver that
successfully loaded, not the driver that is currently trying to get
loaded. So you won't see what driver is hanging the system.

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.

In the boot menu, can you select "Last known good configuration"?

Now I think I remember the lists, system.ini and win.ini.

Not used by NT-based versions of windows except when opening a command
shell (within Windows).