[Help] - Installing SP2

[ANDYSUDS]

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 folks

Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.

--Zxian

[Zxian]

Have you tried installing the Network install of SP2?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

Did you make this recovery CD yourself from a basic Windows install CD?

[ANDYSUDS]

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

[nmX.Memnoch]

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

[Tarun]

Try booting into Safe Mode and installing.

[cyberpyr8]

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.net

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

[atomizer]

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.

[ANDYSUDS]

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

[atomizer]

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.

[suryad]

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.