agp440.sys hanging on startup

**Big Booger** · June 30th, 2003, 03:11 AM

I am having this same problem for the second time. When XP was first released I had this problem and wound up reformatting. I will be out of the works for a while. I am at work now on my laptop.

I was trying to capture some video from my VCR and my capture card hung. It wouldn't unlock no matter what I tried so I pressed and held the power button to shut it down. When it rebooted it hung on the WIndows XP boot screen.

I tried hitting F8 and booting to last known good configuration, I tried safemode, debugging mode, safemode with networking, safemode with command line, none of it worked. They all hang on that agp440.sys file :P

I checked this site:
http://www.computing.net/windows2000...rum/21602.html

I tried changing the BIOS settings as it suggested and nothing works.

I did swap video cards and the system boots fine so I know it is the video driver causing the issue. I will try a repair install, and if that don't work, I will do an install over the existing installation, back up my files and then back to a clean boot

Thank god, I was getting sick of not having troubles

Gets boring when you don't have something to fix or repair.

Will let you know if it works.

**Tinker** · June 30th, 2003, 07:46 AM

I had the same problem with agp440.sys on a system that I sold to a friend. Wound up being a HDD S.M.A.R.T. Problem, I had to RMA the HDD. The HDD was a Western Digital 100 Gig drive.

I could run anything I wanted by booting from the floppy with Win 98 boot disk. I trouble shot the problem for about 2 hours and then it started coming up with the S.M.A.R.T. error.

**Big Booger** · June 30th, 2003, 12:38 PM

The crucial point is, if I throw a new video card in, it works great. The card that is causing the problems, works flawlessly. I checked it out in another machine. I don't get this problem. Well I am currently trying everything I can before I do a repair install.

**Thor** · June 30th, 2003, 13:45 PM

Seems to be a common problem as mentioned HERE

Solutions cover the gamut from re-installing the video card drivers to an EasyCD update patch for XP to renaming the file to .old and , again, re-installing the video drivers. There may be many other fixes in the thread.

**Big Booger** · June 30th, 2003, 14:08 PM

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

I will most likely try that first
then try to rename the agp440.sys

Hopefully it will work.

**cash_site** · July 1st, 2003, 03:36 AM

Just by the by, what type of video card was it, and what version driver did you have installed??

**Big Booger** · July 1st, 2003, 06:44 AM

Nvidia Geforce 4 TI4200
Driver version 44.03 from Nvidia.

Driver worked fine. I think it was because I shut it down while trying to capture video that caused it this time.

Still working to get it up..