Hi,
Some time ago I replaced the motherboard on my daughter's HP Pavilion DV9000 laptop. (The GPU had fried because the radiator was bunged up with fluff!) The repair was a success - it works fine, apart from one little niggle. At boot up an error message appears to the effect that the Boot Agent has failed and cannot continue. Waiting a few seconds and the message disappears and Windows XP loads and everything is then normal.
I assume that this is because some aspect of the new m/board (Flash BIOS?), requires some programming. At the time I searched the internet for a solution, but, to be honest, the cure seemed worse than the problem. I was not at all confident that the suggested courses of action would not result in losing all the data on the HDD.
Perhaps someone here can offer a clear explanation of a) the source of the message and, b) a solution.
It annoys me more than my daughter as I feel that I have not finished the job properly.....
Regards,
Mike W
Some time ago I replaced the motherboard on my daughter's HP Pavilion DV9000 laptop. (The GPU had fried because the radiator was bunged up with fluff!) The repair was a success - it works fine, apart from one little niggle. At boot up an error message appears to the effect that the Boot Agent has failed and cannot continue. Waiting a few seconds and the message disappears and Windows XP loads and everything is then normal.
I assume that this is because some aspect of the new m/board (Flash BIOS?), requires some programming. At the time I searched the internet for a solution, but, to be honest, the cure seemed worse than the problem. I was not at all confident that the suggested courses of action would not result in losing all the data on the HDD.
Perhaps someone here can offer a clear explanation of a) the source of the message and, b) a solution.
It annoys me more than my daughter as I feel that I have not finished the job properly.....
Regards,
Mike W