I see several other references to this. After shutting down my eMachines laptop normally (after my daughter was using it to LimeWire a bunch of offensive music), the next morning it booted into a window with:
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.
etc.
I've tried all the Safe Modes, Last Known Good Configuration, to no avail.
The last listed program running is agpCPQ.sys.
A blue screen appears and immediately disappears just before it fails and apologizes again, but I can't read it, and the Pause key seems not to work.
My eMachines boot CD is lost, so I created a boot CD from Microsoft: WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.EXE. That just slows the boot process, with the same result.
Suggestions?
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.
etc.
I've tried all the Safe Modes, Last Known Good Configuration, to no avail.
The last listed program running is agpCPQ.sys.
A blue screen appears and immediately disappears just before it fails and apologizes again, but I can't read it, and the Pause key seems not to work.
My eMachines boot CD is lost, so I created a boot CD from Microsoft: WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.EXE. That just slows the boot process, with the same result.
Suggestions?