Quote Originally Posted by Island_Boy_77
Hi
Thanks for your reply. No - I didn't. I also thought of the video driver thing. While I know a reasonable amount about generally installs and maintenance, I do not know how to get around the driver. How would I "change" the agp.sys? I'm no programmer, and I don't do command-line stuff (although I do remember a reasonable amount about DOS, if that helps). Presuming it is hanging on the video (which is likely), and presuming I can boot into Safe Mode, how can I force the system to accept or work around the agp.sys? Also, for some reason the configuration I am working with will NOT accept a floppy drive. I've tried 3 different floppies, 2 different power cables, and 3 different floppy cables, as well as all the permutations I can dream up for which was around the cables connect, and the motherboad keeps reporting "fail 80" on boot. So, I can't update the BIOS to see if having the latest will help SP2. You wouldn't happen to know how to make a boot CD would you?
More thoughts?
MS has a possible solution for the agp440.sys issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324764

The way I've gotten around the agp440.sys (providing that that is the issue) you just need another spare video card. even a PCI or another AGP card will work.

I'd do as conan says and make a ghost image of the current install in case anything goes wrong. And it will be a lot quicker to recover.

Then I'd try to install SP2 *check your media... could be something wrong there.

Further, do you have a spare motherboard you could try in this system? Install it and check to see if indeed the albatron motherboard is not the culprit. Considering that the floppy drive won't install, that could be indicative of an issue with the motherboard.

To create a bootable CDROM of the bios, you'll need to use a working system with a floppy. Download the Albatron BIOS update, and create a BOOTABLE FLOPPY DISK.

Then, when you've verified the bootable floppy disk works, open up NERO, select CDROM (boot) in the wizard. Then select the floppy drive, and make a copy of the bootable floppy to the CDROM.

Then your CDROM should be bootable and should flash the Albatron BIOS.

That's one way to do it that should work.