Perrier1

This might be caused by my trying to set up a home network. I followed the network setup thing and then the computer said it needed to restart. It has never restarted. It just locks up at the XP screen. It will also not restart in safe mode with any of the options or with the system restore option.

In safe mode it always locks up at the line:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system 32\DRIVEERS\agpCPQ.sys


Any idea how I can get the computer to start up and fix this problem? I do not need the network setup.


It is an eMAchine T6522
with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

I wasn't sure which forum to put this in so I also put it in the desktop forum.

imsati

Do you have a Recovery CD? Most will have the option to Fix a faulty system.

Perrier1

I don't know where the disk are. Is there a way to fix without the disk?

Perrier1

I found the recovery CD but it does not work. It just locks up at the PC Angel (or something like that) title screen.

imsati

What type of file system do you have on this HDD? Fat16 or Fat32 by chance?

Perrier1

I am sorry, I don't know what this question means. I don't know that much about computers.

imsati

FAT stands for File Allocation Table. It's a filing system. FAT16 is 16-bit and FAT32 is 32-bit. They were used for Windows 95 through Windows...ME? (or 2000, maybe?) XP uses NTFS (NT File System). NTFS is more stable than FAT, that's why the change was made. If you are running Windows XP that you *upgraded* to from a previous version, you probably have FAT. If you installed a *full* version of XP, you will have NTFS.

Reason I asked... There have been a some other folks with your problem, all of which are using a version of FAT. This may sound absolutely crazy, but try booting and then killing the power when the system is about halfway loaded. Wait a few seconds, then restore power and boot up again. This should force a Checkdisk that will attempt to repair any bad files. From what I've heard/am reading up on about this, that has worked for a few people.