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ASUS T2-P & Windows XP SP2
Hi,
Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. Anyone successfully managed to put SP2 onto one of these? |
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n schrieb:
Hi, Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. I assume you mean the good old T2P4 and BIOS 0207? It could be that SP2 requires SSE support. Have you tried a fresh XP install, followed by direct installation of SP2? Stephan -- Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/ PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer |
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"Stephan Grossklass" wrote in message
... n schrieb: Hi, Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. I assume you mean the good old T2P4 and BIOS 0207? It could be that SP2 requires SSE support. Have you tried a fresh XP install, followed by direct installation of SP2? Stephan -- Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/ PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer No, it's the shiney new T2-P http://uk.asus.com/products/desktop/t2-p-d/overview.htm Yes, I did try a format and a fresh install of XP followed by SP2 and get the same results. When broken, and booting in safe mode, the line it appears to stop on is... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System 32\drivers\btkrnl.sys |
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wrote: "Stephan Grossklass" wrote in message ... n schrieb: Hi, Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. I assume you mean the good old T2P4 and BIOS 0207? It could be that SP2 requires SSE support. Have you tried a fresh XP install, followed by direct installation of SP2? Stephan -- Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/ PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer No, it's the shiney new T2-P http://uk.asus.com/products/desktop/t2-p-d/overview.htm Yes, I did try a format and a fresh install of XP followed by SP2 and get the same results. When broken, and booting in safe mode, the line it appears to stop on is... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System 32\drivers\btkrnl.sys I used btkrnl.sys in Google and got this: http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...0a% 40phx.gbl The poster in that case, used Safe Mode (Disk Logging) as his workaround. Another post says: "btkrnl.sys which is a Bluetooth Protocol Driver for Windows 2000..." Who would've guessed that... I was thinking British Telecom. Does your system have Bluetooth ? Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "n" wrote: "Stephan Grossklass" wrote in message ... n schrieb: Hi, Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. I assume you mean the good old T2P4 and BIOS 0207? It could be that SP2 requires SSE support. Have you tried a fresh XP install, followed by direct installation of SP2? Stephan -- Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/ PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer No, it's the shiney new T2-P http://uk.asus.com/products/desktop/t2-p-d/overview.htm Yes, I did try a format and a fresh install of XP followed by SP2 and get the same results. When broken, and booting in safe mode, the line it appears to stop on is... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System 32\drivers\btkrnl.sys I used btkrnl.sys in Google and got this: http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...0a% 40phx.gbl The poster in that case, used Safe Mode (Disk Logging) as his workaround. Another post says: "btkrnl.sys which is a Bluetooth Protocol Driver for Windows 2000..." Who would've guessed that... I was thinking British Telecom. Does your system have Bluetooth ? Paul Hi Paul, My system does have USB bluetooth, very interesting. However, having messed around with this machine for hours this morning, I am loosing the will to upgrade it. Norton Ghost is worth every penny it costs..... On formatting and installing base XP, with just the motherboard devices configured, and no external devices, it stops after installing SP2 on the boot at multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System 32\drivers\mup.sys I tried the Microsoft procedure for backing off the service pack and trying to boot and view the log files, but guess what, it won't boot up! There is something wierd about the Asus T2-P. Has anyone managed to SP2 a T2-P?? |
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"n" wrote in message .uk... "Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "n" wrote: "Stephan Grossklass" wrote in message ... n schrieb: Hi, Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. I assume you mean the good old T2P4 and BIOS 0207? It could be that SP2 requires SSE support. Have you tried a fresh XP install, followed by direct installation of SP2? Stephan -- Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/ PC#6: i440BX, 1xP3-500E, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer No, it's the shiney new T2-P http://uk.asus.com/products/desktop/t2-p-d/overview.htm Yes, I did try a format and a fresh install of XP followed by SP2 and get the same results. When broken, and booting in safe mode, the line it appears to stop on is... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System 32\drivers\btkrnl.sys I used btkrnl.sys in Google and got this: http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...0a% 40phx.gbl The poster in that case, used Safe Mode (Disk Logging) as his workaround. Another post says: "btkrnl.sys which is a Bluetooth Protocol Driver for Windows 2000..." Who would've guessed that... I was thinking British Telecom. Does your system have Bluetooth ? Paul Hi Paul, My system does have USB bluetooth, very interesting. However, having messed around with this machine for hours this morning, I am loosing the will to upgrade it. Norton Ghost is worth every penny it costs..... On formatting and installing base XP, with just the motherboard devices configured, and no external devices, it stops after installing SP2 on the boot at multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System 32\drivers\mup.sys I tried the Microsoft procedure for backing off the service pack and trying to boot and view the log files, but guess what, it won't boot up! There is something wierd about the Asus T2-P. Has anyone managed to SP2 a T2-P?? Looks like something weird to do with Prescott CPU and Intel chipset combination. Found this, and it seems to sum the situation up perfectly. http://www.mcse.ms/message962236.html |
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"n" wrote in message
. uk... Hi, Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. Anyone successfully managed to put SP2 onto one of these? See: http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7447 -- Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware) www.coribright.com |
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In article .net, "Cari"
wrote: "n" wrote in message . uk... Hi, Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. Anyone successfully managed to put SP2 onto one of these? See: http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7447 BIOS 1007 has microcode for 0F0A, 0F12, 0F13, 0F24, 0F25, 0F27, 0F29 (04/06/2003) and 0F29 (18/07/2003). I think a Prescott would be 0F33, so the conditions for that theory hold, and the motherboard in question probably doesn't completely support Prescott. (I cannot find the motherboard or T2-P on the cpusupport web page, and that is why I had to extract the BIOS file.) If the board had an Award BIOS, you might be able to install your own microcode using CTMC (i.e. without having to completely flash a new BIOS - the procedure just installs a 2KB microcode file and won't corrupt the BIOS because the microcode segment is transient). I don't know if the same hook is in the AMI BIOS, such that CTMC could work or not. http://www.tipperlinne.com/bios6b4.htm The AMIBCP75 program can be used to manipulate the AMI BIOS - that is what I used to extra the microcode segment above. But, both CBROM and AMIBCP tend to hiccup with Asus BIOS, as Asus has messed with the format a bit, and I haven't had any success in editing BIOS files yet (others have). If going this route (editing a BIOS and flashing the whole thing), a BIOS Savior with duplicate flash chip is a must. That assumes there is a model of BIOS Savior that fits in a T2-P. It might be better to phone Asus tech support and find out if there is any plan to put microcode for the Prescott in that BIOS. Explain how SP2 won't work without it :-) Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... In article .net, "Cari" wrote: "n" wrote in message . uk... Hi, Has anyone had success installing XP SP2 onto an ASUS T2-P? I have tried installing the service pack three times with no joy. It finished the service pack install ok, but never re-boots afterwards. It just stops during the IPL, and safe mode, last known config etc don't work either. I even scratch installed XP, and installed the service pack, but got the same results. I have installed SP2 onto 4 other boxes, all of which went without a hitch, but the ASUS T2-P doesn't like it. It runs, and has done for months, with service pack 1 and all the updates with no trouble at all, but service pack 2 kills it. I have bios 1007, just in case that is of importance. Anyone successfully managed to put SP2 onto one of these? See: http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7447 BIOS 1007 has microcode for 0F0A, 0F12, 0F13, 0F24, 0F25, 0F27, 0F29 (04/06/2003) and 0F29 (18/07/2003). I think a Prescott would be 0F33, so the conditions for that theory hold, and the motherboard in question probably doesn't completely support Prescott. (I cannot find the motherboard or T2-P on the cpusupport web page, and that is why I had to extract the BIOS file.) If the board had an Award BIOS, you might be able to install your own microcode using CTMC (i.e. without having to completely flash a new BIOS - the procedure just installs a 2KB microcode file and won't corrupt the BIOS because the microcode segment is transient). I don't know if the same hook is in the AMI BIOS, such that CTMC could work or not. http://www.tipperlinne.com/bios6b4.htm The AMIBCP75 program can be used to manipulate the AMI BIOS - that is what I used to extra the microcode segment above. But, both CBROM and AMIBCP tend to hiccup with Asus BIOS, as Asus has messed with the format a bit, and I haven't had any success in editing BIOS files yet (others have). If going this route (editing a BIOS and flashing the whole thing), a BIOS Savior with duplicate flash chip is a must. That assumes there is a model of BIOS Savior that fits in a T2-P. It might be better to phone Asus tech support and find out if there is any plan to put microcode for the Prescott in that BIOS. Explain how SP2 won't work without it :-) Paul Hi Paul, Thanks for the info. It sounds a bit out of my league, so I will wait for the next bios release from Asus. This box is flogged as supporting Prescott's, so they are sure to issue a bios update to fix it - otherwise they can have the bloody thing back! |
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