Dimension 8300

 

 

I have a Nvidia Geforce MX 420 w TV  video card.  I  installed the SP2 patch which also suggested an update of my Geforce drivers.  However, I did the two updates in two parts: first update to SP2  -- No problems. So next I went back to the Windows update site and updated the drive for the GEforce.  Now I got the AGP440 problem.  I turned off the AGP440.sys and got the PC back working but it was slow and I could not get any programs to start/initialize the RPC.  Finally, I have to reload SP1 back into the machine.

 

Since my block for SP2  update will end on 4/12 and I would like the latest XP updates, I will again try the update.  However, I am more informed about the problems and have did the following:

 

1. update my machine bios

2. update Geforce driver from Nvidia site

3. created clone/backup of machine

4. will install AGP440 MS patch (KB885894)

 

However, I have one question

 Do I need the AGP440.sys driver to load at boot or can I leave it off?