ANDYSUDS Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 The kids have a compaq pressario pc(amd 64 3200+)the hard drive gave up the ghost so i installed another and put in the recovery disc i made just after i bought it new.the prob is that the machine downloads and installs all the updates fine but when i try sp2 the machine freezes resulting in the recovery cd having to be reinstalled, any ideas folksTitle Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.--Zxian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Have you tried installing the Network install of SP2? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=enDid you make this recovery CD yourself from a basic Windows install CD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDYSUDS Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 the cd was made with the option you get to make one after you uppack and set up the machine for the first time,as for network sp2 i am not quite sure about this.i have a sp2 installation disc from microsoft but it does the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 (edited) It could be a bad CD. Try downloading the network installation version to see if it does the same thing. Edited January 10, 2006 by nmX.Memnoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Try booting into Safe Mode and installing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberpyr8 Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I created a slipstream version of WinXP SP2 and it saves a lot of time. The easiest way to do it is to get Autostreamer from Neowin.nethttp://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomizer Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 welcome to the world of wonderful reasons to NOT buy an OEM of course that may not be the problem at all.install the network (off-line) version of SP2, as suggested earlier and see if that does it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDYSUDS Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 thanks guys for your replies,,i installed the network version and everything seemed ok for a while untill the machine done the automatic updates and then it hung after reboot and will not restart,any ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomizer Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 you may have had a prior problem i suppose. or, like i said, i guess it could be a problem because it's an OEM installation. i dunno. search areound and see what you can see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 You could have had spyware on your machine prior to the SP2 install. I think that is your problem. A lot of my friends got f**ked when SP2 was released the first time because their machines were alread y playing hosts to malicious software. SP2 is a total recompile of key internal components that prevent buffer overflow attacks. Note how after the update every bug fix is non buffer overflow related. So maybe a fresh reformat would do the trick. Reformat and then update. Then install other software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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