Comments on: agp440.sys and dead XP system http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system Reality from Marc's point of view! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wayne http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-37710 wayne Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:55:14 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-37710 i had the same issue on a friends computer.. spent two days trying different things (ie. reseating everything, replacing video cards, among other things).. finally gave up and did a google search on the agp440.sys error.. found this post.. thought to myself, it couldnt be that easy to fix.. Sure enough, I rechecked the bios settings, the comp was set to boot from the cd drives first, then the hard drive. so i checked the cd drives.. found an AUDIO CD in it.. pulled the cd out, reset boot order in the bios.. and the computer has been booting perfectly ever since. Muchly appreciated on posting this!!!!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('37710','wayne'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('37710','wayne','i had the same issue on a friends computer.. spent two days trying different things (ie. reseating everything, replacing video cards, among other things).. finally gave up and did a google search on the agp440.sys error.. found this post.. thought to myself, it couldnt be that easy to fix.. Sure enough, I rechecked the bios settings, the comp was set to boot from the cd drives first, then the hard drive. so i checked the cd drives.. found an AUDIO CD in it.. pulled the cd out, reset boot order in the bios.. and the computer has been booting perfectly ever since. Muchly appreciated on posting this!!!!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> i had the same issue on a friends computer.. spent two days trying different things (ie. reseating everything, replacing video cards, among other things).. finally gave up and did a google search on the agp440.sys error.. found this post.. thought to myself, it couldnt be that easy to fix.. Sure enough, I rechecked the bios settings, the comp was set to boot from the cd drives first, then the hard drive. so i checked the cd drives.. found an AUDIO CD in it.. pulled the cd out, reset boot order in the bios.. and the computer has been booting perfectly ever since. Muchly appreciated on posting this!!!!
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]]> By: Sly from jmp.cx http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-16340 Sly from jmp.cx Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:47:46 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-16340 It seems if your able to get into save mode.... IT take some time when haning on the agp440.sys do a system restore and goback a few weeks. fixed it for me.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('16340','Sly from jmp.cx'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('16340','Sly from jmp.cx','It seems if your able to get into save mode.... IT take some time when haning on the agp440.sys do a system restore and goback a few weeks. \r\n\r\nfixed it for me.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> It seems if your able to get into save mode…. IT take some time when haning on the agp440.sys do a system restore and goback a few weeks.

fixed it for me.

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]]> By: TXGardener http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-16176 TXGardener Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:44:43 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-16176 Thank you Marc! My HP media center XP was hanging up after post, in safe mode I saw agp440.sys was last to load and found your note while looking for clues. The USB was it for me also, though not a thumb drive, it was the usb mouse, specifically, it halted the boot depending in which usb port it was connected to, most were ok, one was not. So thanks for getting me to look at usb before going into a OS repair.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('16176','TXGardener'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('16176','TXGardener','Thank you Marc!\r\nMy HP media center XP was hanging up after post, in safe mode I saw agp440.sys was last to load and found your note while looking for clues. The USB was it for me also, though not a thumb drive, it was the usb mouse, specifically, it halted the boot depending in which usb port it was connected to, most were ok, one was not.\r\nSo thanks for getting me to look at usb before going into a OS repair.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thank you Marc!
My HP media center XP was hanging up after post, in safe mode I saw agp440.sys was last to load and found your note while looking for clues. The USB was it for me also, though not a thumb drive, it was the usb mouse, specifically, it halted the boot depending in which usb port it was connected to, most were ok, one was not.
So thanks for getting me to look at usb before going into a OS repair.
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]]> By: Anthony http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-8033 Anthony Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:43:20 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-8033 I had the agp440.sys problem. From past experience the first thing I tried was to re-seat all the expansion cards (i.e remove-and-reinsert). When that failed I tried removing all the expansion cards except my graphics card. But, still no luck. Finally, I removed the hard drive and used a usb-to-ide cable to connect it to another computer. When doing this I needed to remove the jummper on the harddrive (the jumper was on cs-select). Once the hard drive was connected as a usb mass storage device I ran: F:\>chkdsk f: /r In the out put of the chkdsk command I saw: "Windows replaced bad clusters in file 3290 of name \WINDOWS\system32\config\software." After that I put back the jumper on the hard drive and re-inserted it in the pc that was previously failing to boot. I held my breath as I waited to see if it would get past the loading of agp440.sys. Luckily it did. Problem solved.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8033','Anthony'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8033','Anthony','I had the agp440.sys problem. From past experience the first thing I tried was to re-seat all the expansion cards (i.e remove-and-reinsert). When that failed I tried removing all the expansion cards except my graphics card. But, still no luck. Finally, I removed the hard drive and used a usb-to-ide cable to connect it to another computer. When doing this I needed to remove the jummper on the harddrive (the jumper was on cs-select). Once the hard drive was connected as a usb mass storage device I ran: \r\n\r\nF:\>chkdsk f: \/r \r\n\r\nIn the out put of the chkdsk command I saw: \"Windows replaced bad clusters in file 3290 of name \WINDOWS\system32\config\software.\"\r\n\r\nAfter that I put back the jumper on the hard drive and re-inserted it in the pc that was previously failing to boot. I held my breath as I waited to see if it would get past the loading of agp440.sys. Luckily it did. Problem solved.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I had the agp440.sys problem. From past experience the first thing I tried was to re-seat all the expansion cards (i.e remove-and-reinsert). When that failed I tried removing all the expansion cards except my graphics card. But, still no luck. Finally, I removed the hard drive and used a usb-to-ide cable to connect it to another computer. When doing this I needed to remove the jummper on the harddrive (the jumper was on cs-select). Once the hard drive was connected as a usb mass storage device I ran:

F:\>chkdsk f: /r

In the out put of the chkdsk command I saw: “Windows replaced bad clusters in file 3290 of name \WINDOWS\system32\config\software.”

After that I put back the jumper on the hard drive and re-inserted it in the pc that was previously failing to boot. I held my breath as I waited to see if it would get past the loading of agp440.sys. Luckily it did. Problem solved.

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]]> By: Dawn http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-8008 Dawn Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:50:37 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-8008 <a href='#comment-8007' rel="nofollow">@Marc</a> - Marc, I just have to provide an update to my post yesterday. Not only did it fix the issue for my problem yesterday, it also fixed it for my previous drive AND the drive I had replaced 2 years ago!! I had suspected my USB ports were having an issue then, but it wasn't anything consistent and all the research turned up zilch. At least I have my all of my data usable again for which I'm very thankful. Now I just have to figure out what causes the initial problem and fix that :) That and save up for a MacBook Pro. Thanks again for having documented this issue and providing your solution. GREATLY appreciated!!!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8008','Dawn'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8008','Dawn','<a href=\'#comment-8007\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Marc<\/a> - Marc, I just have to provide an update to my post yesterday. Not only did it fix the issue for my problem yesterday, it also fixed it for my previous drive AND the drive I had replaced 2 years ago!! I had suspected my USB ports were having an issue then, but it wasn\'t anything consistent and all the research turned up zilch. At least I have my all of my data usable again for which I\'m very thankful. \r\n\r\nNow I just have to figure out what causes the initial problem and fix that :) That and save up for a MacBook Pro.\r\n\r\nThanks again for having documented this issue and providing your solution. GREATLY appreciated!!!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Marc – Marc, I just have to provide an update to my post yesterday. Not only did it fix the issue for my problem yesterday, it also fixed it for my previous drive AND the drive I had replaced 2 years ago!! I had suspected my USB ports were having an issue then, but it wasn’t anything consistent and all the research turned up zilch. At least I have my all of my data usable again for which I’m very thankful.

Now I just have to figure out what causes the initial problem and fix that :) That and save up for a MacBook Pro.

Thanks again for having documented this issue and providing your solution. GREATLY appreciated!!!

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]]> By: Marc http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-8007 Marc Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:52:11 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-8007 Thanks for your feedback Dawn. It's always nice to know that the effort of document a solution that I had issues resolving is helpful to other folks out there.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8007','Marc'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8007','Marc','Thanks for your feedback Dawn. It\'s always nice to know that the effort of document a solution that I had issues resolving is helpful to other folks out there.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks for your feedback Dawn. It’s always nice to know that the effort of document a solution that I had issues resolving is helpful to other folks out there.
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]]> By: Dawn http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-8005 Dawn Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:41:12 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-8005 Thank you for this. I was looking at having to either replace my hard drive or buy a new computer - for the second time in exactly a month (Friday the 13th both times - making me superstitious!). Anyway, unplugged my USB tablet, rebooted into Safe Mode which I couldn't do prior to unplugging the tablet, looked around on my computer and just exited normally. Booted up again into normal mode and everything was fine and dandy. Life is good. Mind you, I'm saving for a new computer but if this trick can get me by until then, I'm a happy camper. Thank you so much for posting and for everyone else's input as well - I just saved some ching.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8005','Dawn'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8005','Dawn','Thank you for this. I was looking at having to either replace my hard drive or buy a new computer - for the second time in exactly a month (Friday the 13th both times - making me superstitious!). Anyway, unplugged my USB tablet, rebooted into Safe Mode which I couldn\'t do prior to unplugging the tablet, looked around on my computer and just exited normally. Booted up again into normal mode and everything was fine and dandy. Life is good. Mind you, I\'m saving for a new computer but if this trick can get me by until then, I\'m a happy camper. Thank you so much for posting and for everyone else\'s input as well - I just saved some ching.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thank you for this. I was looking at having to either replace my hard drive or buy a new computer – for the second time in exactly a month (Friday the 13th both times – making me superstitious!). Anyway, unplugged my USB tablet, rebooted into Safe Mode which I couldn’t do prior to unplugging the tablet, looked around on my computer and just exited normally. Booted up again into normal mode and everything was fine and dandy. Life is good. Mind you, I’m saving for a new computer but if this trick can get me by until then, I’m a happy camper. Thank you so much for posting and for everyone else’s input as well – I just saved some ching.
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]]> By: paul http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-7938 paul Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:14:38 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-7938 here is the answer everybody http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324764<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('7938','paul'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('7938','paul','here is the answer everybody\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/324764'); return false;">Quote</a></div> here is the answer everybody

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324764

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]]> By: Les Newsom http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-7923 Les Newsom Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:51:40 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-7923 Ok all. Very helpful thread and certainly can help quite a bit. I will post my solution to this issue to benefit as well. Same issue, system rebooted continuously after boss replaced her cmos battery. BIOS changed to disable Palate Snoop, USB and VGA IRQ had no impact. Popped out the battery, no impact. Swapped the AGP card for a PCI one, no impact. Booted to Recovery console per microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324764 Disabled agp440 , no impact. Booted to recovery console and ran chkdsk /r which found errors and fixed them. System then booted into OS as expected. System did throw a message on having restored a registry value (the one disabled per the MS KB article) Shutdown system Reinstalled battery (while off, but plugged in) Swapped the Video cards back out and rebooted but could not use mouse. Restarted to change BIOS back to allow USB support, PaleteSnoop and IRG for VGA and got my mouse working. Yellow bang in Device manager indicated issue with AGP being disabled, so rebooted to Recovery Console to back out MS KB article changes. In the article, disabling is spelled out, but not re-enabling. To re-enable, the command is ENABLE AGP440 SERVICE_AUTO_START (note, there is a space between enable and agp440 and another between agp440 and service) Hit enter and then type exit to reboot. Caveat!! I changed from the c:\windows prompt to c:\ Whether this matters or not, I am not sure. Now everything is fine. Boss is happy. I hope this is helpful to someone. Les<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('7923','Les Newsom'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('7923','Les Newsom','Ok all.\r\n\r\nVery helpful thread and certainly can help quite a bit. \r\n\r\nI will post my solution to this issue to benefit as well.\r\n\r\nSame issue, system rebooted continuously after boss replaced her cmos battery.\r\n\r\nBIOS changed to disable Palate Snoop, USB and VGA IRQ had no impact. \r\n\r\nPopped out the battery, no impact.\r\n\r\nSwapped the AGP card for a PCI one, no impact.\r\n\r\nBooted to Recovery console per microsoft http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/324764 \r\nDisabled agp440 , no impact.\r\n\r\nBooted to recovery console and ran chkdsk \/r which found errors and fixed them. System then booted into OS as expected. System did throw a message on having restored a registry value (the one disabled per the MS KB article) \r\n\r\nShutdown system\r\n\r\nReinstalled battery (while off, but plugged in) Swapped the Video cards back out and rebooted but could not use mouse. Restarted to change BIOS back to allow USB support, PaleteSnoop and IRG for VGA and got my mouse working. Yellow bang in Device manager indicated issue with AGP being disabled, so rebooted to Recovery Console to back out MS KB article changes. In the article, disabling is spelled out, but not re-enabling. \r\n\r\nTo re-enable, the command is ENABLE AGP440 SERVICE_AUTO_START (note, there is a space between enable and agp440 and another between agp440 and service) \r\nHit enter and then type exit to reboot.\r\n\r\nCaveat!! I changed from the c:\windows prompt to c:\ Whether this matters or not, I am not sure. \r\n\r\nNow everything is fine. Boss is happy. \r\n\r\nI hope this is helpful to someone. \r\n\r\nLes'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Ok all.

Very helpful thread and certainly can help quite a bit.

I will post my solution to this issue to benefit as well.

Same issue, system rebooted continuously after boss replaced her cmos battery.

BIOS changed to disable Palate Snoop, USB and VGA IRQ had no impact.

Popped out the battery, no impact.

Swapped the AGP card for a PCI one, no impact.

Booted to Recovery console per microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324764
Disabled agp440 , no impact.

Booted to recovery console and ran chkdsk /r which found errors and fixed them. System then booted into OS as expected. System did throw a message on having restored a registry value (the one disabled per the MS KB article)

Shutdown system

Reinstalled battery (while off, but plugged in) Swapped the Video cards back out and rebooted but could not use mouse. Restarted to change BIOS back to allow USB support, PaleteSnoop and IRG for VGA and got my mouse working. Yellow bang in Device manager indicated issue with AGP being disabled, so rebooted to Recovery Console to back out MS KB article changes. In the article, disabling is spelled out, but not re-enabling.

To re-enable, the command is ENABLE AGP440 SERVICE_AUTO_START (note, there is a space between enable and agp440 and another between agp440 and service)
Hit enter and then type exit to reboot.

Caveat!! I changed from the c:\windows prompt to c:\ Whether this matters or not, I am not sure.

Now everything is fine. Boss is happy.

I hope this is helpful to someone.

Les

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]]> By: Gord http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp440sys-and-dead-xp-system/comment-page-1#comment-7915 Gord Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:00:57 +0000 http://marc-bourassa.com/2005/04/24/agp400sys-and-dead-xp-system/#comment-7915 I've had the same problem on two different machines now; the latest being a laptop with nothing but a power cord plugged into it. It has only been used to watch DVDs for the last eight months. Nothing new installed and yet today it starts acting up. I tried the reverse of what you suggested and plugged in a USB hard drive. It actually booted up fine once I had done this. Of course it blue screened again later but I thought I would mention this as an option for others just in case it gets them past the problem point.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('7915','Gord'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('7915','Gord','I\'ve had the same problem on two different machines now; the latest being a laptop with nothing but a power cord plugged into it. It has only been used to watch DVDs for the last eight months. Nothing new installed and yet today it starts acting up.\r\n\r\nI tried the reverse of what you suggested and plugged in a USB hard drive. It actually booted up fine once I had done this. Of course it blue screened again later but I thought I would mention this as an option for others just in case it gets them past the problem point.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’ve had the same problem on two different machines now; the latest being a laptop with nothing but a power cord plugged into it. It has only been used to watch DVDs for the last eight months. Nothing new installed and yet today it starts acting up.

I tried the reverse of what you suggested and plugged in a USB hard drive. It actually booted up fine once I had done this. Of course it blue screened again later but I thought I would mention this as an option for others just in case it gets them past the problem point.

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