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Hula Baloo
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Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject:
SP2 & P4 Prescott CPUs - unable to boot |
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Back when I researched SP2 in Aug., I remember a problem reported here
with SP2 and P4 Prescott CPUs not being able to boot after installing
SP2. The fix was to flash the BIOS to a more current version, but there
was a circumvention where you could boot up the Recovery Console and
rename a file (I believe it was something.SYS in the SYSTEM32 folder?).
Could some kind soul refresh my memory as to what this file was? I
have a friend who's stumbled into this problem and can't boot his system
now. We tried booting to Safe Mode and Last Known Good Configuration,
but these just reboot & give the same error. Help! TIA. |
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R. C. White
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Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject:
Re: SP2 & P4 Prescott CPUs - unable to boot |
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Hi, Hula.
See MVP Chris Quirke's page on this subject:
XP SP2 vs. Intel Prescott
http://cquirke.mvps.org/sp2intel.htm
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Hula Baloo" <eepyeep@nospam.juno.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Back when I researched SP2 in Aug., I remember a problem reported here
with SP2 and P4 Prescott CPUs not being able to boot after installing SP2.
The fix was to flash the BIOS to a more current version, but there was a
circumvention where you could boot up the Recovery Console and rename a
file (I believe it was something.SYS in the SYSTEM32 folder?). Could some
kind soul refresh my memory as to what this file was? I have a friend
who's stumbled into this problem and can't boot his system now. We tried
booting to Safe Mode and Last Known Good Configuration, but these just
reboot & give the same error. Help! TIA. |
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Alex Nichol
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Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:35 pm Post subject:
Re: SP2 & P4 Prescott CPUs - unable to boot |
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Hula Baloo wrote:
| Quote: | Back when I researched SP2 in Aug., I remember a problem reported here
with SP2 and P4 Prescott CPUs not being able to boot after installing
SP2. The fix was to flash the BIOS to a more current version, but there
was a circumvention where you could boot up the Recovery Console and
rename a file (I believe it was something.SYS in the SYSTEM32 folder?).
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update.sys - best is probably to copy one from an 'XP with SP1'
system.
See discussion of the whole problem at
http://cquirke.mvps.org/sp2intel.htm
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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit) |
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