I know there's a thread already about SP2, C++ and Epson, but I have had a different problem...
[warning - long story and mild ranting ;-) ]
I installed SP2 perfectly well on Monday at about 4pm after checking out drivers/apps to see if there were any compatability issues. I only found one thing and that was StyleXP. Nothing else anywhere, good sign(ish)...
Installed the SP2 update before upgrading StyleXP (I wanted to see what would happen to StyleXP). SP2 installed perfectly well :-o ;-)
StyleXP plainly refused to work (I had to End task before explorer would come up). After going through all the firewall/anti-virus optionsI updated StyleXP and everything was fine...
Until I tried to play Half Life. No graphics card was installed apparently. So off I went to the display properties. Checked out the Advanced/Adapter and sure enough nVidia wasn't there... :-?
Checked out the site and they had no updates for SP2 (the latest update was from July which I was running anyway). Checked out my motherboard site for updated AGP drivers, which I downloaded, but there didn't make a bit of difference.
So I had a choice, SP2 or Half Life and Doom 3? Easy choice that one :-D
Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> SP2...
You will need to reboot the computer.... Ok....
Then suddenly changes into a BSOD before the picture even focusses... BSOD comes up with numbers and says to run anti-virus. Nothing else. No program or error line info at all.
:-? Oookaaay.....
Rebooted, used F8....
Just uninstalled SP2.... Let's go into Safe Mode.... Exactly the same thing happens.... Previous settings that worked.... BSOD'd....
Anything came up with a BSOD from that menu. Even using WinXP's CD after copying Setup Files to your computer and rebooting BSOD'd. Reinstall (without formatting as we only had one partition - not through my choice tho!) BSOD'd. Repair current installation (not through dos prompt) BSOD'd.
Two choices again - phone my bro-in-law or punt the PC out the window. I would've done the latter, but then I'd have to fork out the money for a new pc for Sioux's uni work ;-). So my bro-in-law came over and took it away. Copied all the important stuff (30Gb!) onto his HD and re-installed.
No idea what happened at all, there were absolutely no error messages that were visible to us so there was nothing we could do to figure out what was causing the problem.
Anyways... WinXP and SP1 is back up running perfectly well right now... and after 48 hours of no pc and net I would've been getting withdrawal symptoms if I hadn't gone out and bough Silent Hill 4 yesterday, pretty good so far (got back into the forest world for the 2nd time now) :-D
