Crashing

Browntoa

any Xp disk will do if he can borrow one from someone in Uni or his IT support at UNI ??

sak46

Hello, Sak46's son here.
Trying to fix the crashing problem today after managing to get hold of an XP disk.

Put the disk in, booted from the disk, Clicked install XP, clicked repair.

During the install it asked me to insert a disk with a file called viaagpa1.sys on it.
Looked to see what the file was on my Mac on google, and its something to do with a chipset for a graphic card.
I dont have any other disks for my computer so i looked at the google page again and it had a link to the download.
But it was $19!

Stupidly i clicked cancel on the message asking for that film and now it crashes even sooner than it did before. Just started the repair again to see if i can correct it.

Does anyone know where i can get this file?
And also a way of getting it onto the damaged computer to get it to work..

Thx in advance

Browntoa

STOP: 0x0000008E
hints at ram problems
try unplugging 1 stick at a time of you have 2

Browntoa

viaagp1.sys file information

The process VIA NT AGP Filter belongs to the software VIA CPU to AGP2.0/AGP3.0 Controller or VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller by VIA Technologies, Inc (https://www.via.com.tw).
Description: viaagp1.sys is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32\drivers. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 26880 bytes (30% of all occurrence), 27904 bytes, 27648 bytes, 32128 bytes.

sak46

dam, isnt there a way i can get it for free?

Browntoa

I think the only way to identify which driver is required is by identifying the motherboard (open the case and make a note)

or if a Dell or something go to the web site and download from the support area

going into safe mode may stop it crashing

superscaper

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=1&CatID=1070
You want the 4 in 1 driver apparently and unzip it. Burn it to disc or something and then put that in when prompted during install and point the pc to the right drive.

Browntoa

downloads are here but you need to know which chipset
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&OSID=1&CatID=1160

sak46

right! it worked!
Could log in and it didnt crash. Then i restarted and when it logged on it said do you want to update flash player, so i clicked yes. then it crashed, and now its back to what it was like before, logs in, 20 seconds later it goes to blue screen and restarts

Any more advice? i just want to throw it out the window now

Browntoa

take off flash player ??

boot into safe mode and take it off