XP Home SP2 will not boot after upgrade

birdman

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After installing SP2. the computer gets to the page with the scrolling bars
and immediately reboots. I have done a Windows Repair and reinstalled
everything, but it still does the same thing. I was able to reboot in safe
mode and set the boot.ini page to "basevideo" and the computer will boot
properly except it is in 640 x 480 res. It has a geForce F5200 display
adapter and can be adjusted to 1280 x 1024 once it boots up. Upon reboot it
reverts to 640 x 480. What's next? Anybody?
 

birdman

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Also, I tried replacing the kernel32.dll file and it made it much worse. I
had to go back in and rename the original file to get it to work at all. I
couldn't even boot in safe mode.

"Birdman" wrote:

> After installing SP2. the computer gets to the page with the scrolling bars
> and immediately reboots. I have done a Windows Repair and reinstalled
> everything, but it still does the same thing. I was able to reboot in safe
> mode and set the boot.ini page to "basevideo" and the computer will boot
> properly except it is in 640 x 480 res. It has a geForce F5200 display
> adapter and can be adjusted to 1280 x 1024 once it boots up. Upon reboot it
> reverts to 640 x 480. What's next? Anybody?
 

dl

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If you can still boot, visit the vid card manu site and download/update vid
drivers, as per manu instructions.

"Birdman" <Birdman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7E99A65F-0A57-4908-BE39-88D57BBA74D1@microsoft.com...
> After installing SP2. the computer gets to the page with the scrolling
bars
> and immediately reboots. I have done a Windows Repair and reinstalled
> everything, but it still does the same thing. I was able to reboot in safe
> mode and set the boot.ini page to "basevideo" and the computer will boot
> properly except it is in 640 x 480 res. It has a geForce F5200 display
> adapter and can be adjusted to 1280 x 1024 once it boots up. Upon reboot
it
> reverts to 640 x 480. What's next? Anybody?
 

birdman

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Well, that was a lot of fun!!! However I have the same problem, no change.
Thanks for at least trying to help me!!

"DL" wrote:

> If you can still boot, visit the vid card manu site and download/update vid
> drivers, as per manu instructions.
>
> "Birdman" <Birdman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7E99A65F-0A57-4908-BE39-88D57BBA74D1@microsoft.com...
> > After installing SP2. the computer gets to the page with the scrolling
> bars
> > and immediately reboots. I have done a Windows Repair and reinstalled
> > everything, but it still does the same thing. I was able to reboot in safe
> > mode and set the boot.ini page to "basevideo" and the computer will boot
> > properly except it is in 640 x 480 res. It has a geForce F5200 display
> > adapter and can be adjusted to 1280 x 1024 once it boots up. Upon reboot
> it
> > reverts to 640 x 480. What's next? Anybody?
>
>
>