cassy309 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 (edited) hello everyone haven't postedin a long while just reading the topics but i knew where to come to ask this question i have been running windows xp pro and home on two seperate hard drives i have a dual boot system and i know that i have to update everything ie; my video card i tried to upgrade my video card which is a nvidia geforce 2 mx/mx 400 but when i did that all i got was a black screen i had to install xp on top of its self to get my screen back i couldn't even go into safe mode. anyways back to service pack2 i downloaded and installed it and when it was time for my pc to restart i would get the windows logo screen and then a 1 sec blue screen then a back screen again in other words my pc kept re-starting i know it could be a number of things but i need some help i don't know what else to do because i have to much information to just try i clean install and i did do that one my smaller drive and still no luck is there a way for me to pinpoint the promblem with the install? Edited August 14, 2005 by cassy309 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boooggy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 it seems that u have some problems with drivers. u can try to uinstall in safe mode and then see if if your pc starts. but i say that u should make a fresh install slipstreaming sp2 and all postsp2 updates via nlite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassy309 Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 (edited) thanks but i have no problem un-installing it i am able to go into safe mode and un-install i just want to install it but i will try what you suggested thankyou and for some reason i cannot update my bios either. i may need some mmore help with the nlite Edited August 14, 2005 by cassy309 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassy309 Posted August 16, 2005 Author Share Posted August 16, 2005 can anyone help??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassy309 Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 (edited) i've been looking around and i found out what my problem is it's the type of processor i have i justs happne to have an intel pentium 4 and my bios does not provide the required production support i found this out by downloading everest home edition and it told me my cpuid which starts with an F this means that i cannot upgrade to service pack2 and i also went to microsoft and they say not to operate the computer without an updated UPdate.sys file installed. question is can i go on without service pack2 or should i just get another motherboard and cpu? or is there away around this without losing my data?update: for some strange reason after i buy a new tower and after i download the latest video card driver the darn pc now took sp2 but at least now i will have a faster processor thing is that they don't take the same kind of memory thanks for helping everyone Edited September 14, 2005 by cassy309 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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