re: Win XP Pro SP2 - fastfat.sys stop error
Monday, September 13, 2004 at 9:19 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Isaac Leese
(578 messages posted)
SP2 didn't like your system. Don't install SP2 if it does that to you. Wait till
all the bugs are worked out in a couple months.
On Monday, September 13, 2004 at 8:26 am, Tubcat wrote:
>Anyone had a problem upgrading to Win XP Pro SP2 and receiving BSOD Stop Error 23
>at start up?
>
>Everything was working fine before, and had been since I got the computer. I then
>install SP2 through Windows update and after rebooting I get a BSOD as Windows is
>starting up saying its a 0x00000023: FAT_FILE_SYSTEM error with the file fastfat.sys.
>
>Rebooted a dozen times with the same error each time. (I originally thought it might
>be defective memory, but from experience it is usually different error messages
every
>time you reboot and I had no problems prior to SP2)
>
>Now what I find strange is that I have two h/d's both of which are NTFS, not FAT32!
>
>Booting in safe mode works without any problems.
>
>My specs are:
>Asus K8V SE Deluxe
>Athlon 64 3200+
>512 Meg PC3200 RAM
>Radeon 9800Pro 256Meg
>West Digital 160Gig Serial-ATA H/D NTFS boot drive
>West Digital 80Gig Ultra ATA H/D NTFS
>LG GSA-4120B 12X Super Multi Internal DVD+/-R/RW Drive
>420W P/S
>
>with AMD Cool & Quiet Utility Active and nothing is overclocked.
>
>Anyone have an idea of what the problem could be?
>I rolled back to pre-SP2 and everything is working fine again.
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