tommaso Posted July 2, 2007 Posted July 2, 2007 (edited) On the 27/06/2007 I downloaded and installed latest Vista updates (and amongst them there was the long awaited Vista Certified driver for MB running chipset nvidia 590 which I do have...) and the only result after restarting the PC was a corrupted "hive" and the impossibility to reboot. After many tries, I decided to re-install the OS (restoring it brought to nothing except running a crippled and unstable Vista who kept crashing every 2 mins or so...).Reinstalling went almost fine tough the OS froze once while installing sound card but then everything ran fine except... for auto-updates!Vista is not autoupdating anymore, when I check Windows Update, it returns an unspecified error n. 80070490 "IMPOSSIBLE TO SEARCH FOR UPDATES". The error is not reported in the guide, I sent an email to MS tech support and they disappeared after answering that the issue would be solved in 24hrs...I tried to reset the Win Update service and to restore the SoftwareDistribution folder but nothing is changed.So I am now stuck with a "basic" version of Vista Home Premium. As you can easily guess, I need some help... Everything was running perfect before the 27/06/2007 updates...System Specs attached:AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 @ 2,94 GhzASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe (nVidia 590 chipset)NVIDIA GTX 8800CREATIVE X-Fi Extreme Gamer2 x WD3200AAKS RAID 0Thx for your help! Edited July 2, 2007 by tommaso
cluberti Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 The error means:E_PROP_ID_UNSUPPORTEDThe specified property ID is not supported for the specified property setI'm not sure how that relates to you being unable to use Windows Update, but that's what the error means. Perhaps you could take a quick look at the following KB and see if it leads you anywhere?http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;910341
tommaso Posted July 5, 2007 Author Posted July 5, 2007 Thank you for your hint - unluckily it didn't work... And Vista reg looks different from XP and I don't want to mess with it.No need to tell you that MS support have not answered me yet
fizban2 Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 they already anwsered you, of atleast someone better then MS support, have you tried unistalling the updates from the previous update? try rolling those back and see if you can get it working, can you manually install patches or do they fail as well?
cluberti Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Very good question - do updates fail if you download/install them manually, or just Windows Update?
tommaso Posted July 6, 2007 Author Posted July 6, 2007 I couldn't roll back updates as the updates prevented Vista to load... and could only re-install the OS...Anyway today I found a solution, made a try and "updated" Vista by launching the OS setup cd from Vista itself... I would have called that a "repair" but Vista calls it "upgrade".OS backuped itself then downloaded updates during this operation and reinstalled some files (didn't told me what files...)The process was very long, lasted one hour and a half, maybe two. After reboot I just had to re-install sound card drivers but everything was there where I left it and...Windows Update works again But I strongly suggest you to stick to high-priority updates and let the others out of your OS until it keeps working good!
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