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rosenbeto
Contributor
August 26th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

I had several hard drives stored at my mothers which seemed to have been tampered with. I’ll list them in seperated postings. The one in this post used to have XP. It gives me a black screen with booting options which give me the following results:

*Start Windows Normally & Last Known Good Configuration both only attempt but revert back to the initial black screen w/booting options.

*Safe Mode, Safe Mode w/Networking, & Safe Mode w/Command Prompt will all only attempt then quickly scroll a list but ends at the following before reverting to the initial black screen:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows\System32\DRIVERS\agp440.sys

I tried the F8 key which only gave me an Advanced booting option screen which adds Enable Boot Logging; Enable VGA Mode; Directory Services Restore Mode (Windows domain controllers only); Debugging Mode; Disable Automatic Restart on system failure… but all do nothing other than ultimately revert to the black screen.

I tried the Delete key which brought up a blue screen stating the following:

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A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you’ve seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor or visit

http://www.hardware-update.com for an updated BIOS. If you are unable to obtain an updated BIOS or the latest BIOS supplied by your vendor is not ACPI compliant, you can turn off ACPI Mode during text mode setup. To do this, simply press the F7 key when you are prompted to install storage drivers. The system will not notify you that the F7 key was pressed – it simply will silently disable ACPI and allow you to continue your installation.

Technical Information:

***STOP: 0X000000A5 (0X00000002,0X81F9FEAO,0XE14415CO,0X81FE5F18)

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QUESTION:
HOW CAN I UPDATE THE HARDWARE IF I CAN’T GET IT TO BOOT, MUCH LESS GO ONLINE? ALSO, DOES THIS NOT SOUND MORE LIKE A VIRUS MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN TO THE HARD DRIVE? AND IF SO, IS IT SALVAGEABLE?

NOTE: I DO HAVE ANOTHER FUNCTIONING PC W/INTERNET WHICH I’M USING NOW.

THX IN ADVANCE FOR HELP & SUGGESTIONS!!

ROSA~

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Silvia79
Administrator
August 26th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

sounds like something has been modified on each disk, if the disks were put into another computer and drivers have been updated it would cause this.

the only way back would be to either run a system restore if they still have any restore points left – this can be run by booting from a windows CD and selecting the recovery console.

or by booting from the window cd again and running a repair – http://www.computer-adviser.com/xp-repair.html

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