Allen Balthrop wrote:

Hello,

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Sorry for the x post but I need help big time...

I installed a new motherboard and cpu in my system as I fried the old
ones.

I did not do a clean install of Windows XP as my HP Pavilion system
did not come with any recovery cd's so I hooked my existing hard
drive up to the system and powered up.

Anyway, it powers up ok but the first time I switched it on there was
a blue error screen that flashed on for a second and then the system
rebooted itself.

Now when I power on I can get past the bios screen ok but before the
windows logo appears I get the boot menu offering safe mode , safe
mode with networking, normal mode etc. A message appears on this
screen saying that the options appear as windows xp did not shut down
correctly etc etc

If I choose normal mode then a white progress bar at the bottom of
the screen appears, it gets to the end of it and sits there.....for
ever. If I choose safe mode then it shows it loading all the files
from the hard drive and it gets to a file agp440.sys and it sits
there...forever. So whatever this file is it is causing the system
to hang,

Various fixes I have seen include getting into Windows and disabling
the agp440.sys service. But I cannot get into xp at all as my system
did not come with boot cd's.

I can boot to a win98 floppy ok but I cannot access drive c: as it is
ntfs, I thought maybe I could rename agp440.sys to something else.

Any ideas on how to get round this agp440.sys problem? I really
don't want to do a clean install as I have no win xp cd's. My hp
pavilion system contains it's setup files on some hidden partition
on the drive.
But I can print.

Thanks,

td.