Windows XP Hack

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Best way to install SP2 is either after a clean install or with a install CD with SP2 build in allready.

If you don't have a SP2 install disc go here and make it yourself from your own install CD..

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Everyone I have talked to which have a valid license key ( including my self ) have had no problems what-so-ever..

I have 2 valid ones... 1 screwed up, the other no problems :-) But the one that bombed was a cheaper build PC (lesser hardware quality)..  

On every XP at work we run SP2. No problems at all. And that are a lot of PC's.. Mostly user errors, and it's the user who blames it on XP-SP2, but forget they had the same errors on Win2k..  :lol:

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OR is it something to with a particular kind of mother board and BIOS?

Well, the machine that didn't like XP-SP2 had a very cheap GFX card, cheap sound card and a old mobo.. Not to mention the HD was old Maxtor. The rest was "No brand" names stuff. Don't have the crap anymore  :-)

Tho blaming the hardware is a bit to much, most people I know that had problems had mostly some cheap mobo or something..

It may also be because of certain OEM builds..

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Incompatible hardware? Bollocks
Illegal copy of XP? Bollocks

Nobody claimed it was always one of these.. Bad luck may be anther factor..

You might want to check your RAM and even your Power supply tho. Maybe the GFX card is failing.

Besides, just because MS tested hardware X doesn't mean they  tested it in combination with hardware Y.

Oh yeah, one more thing. I know two different people with the exact same Dell PCs. Exactly the same. SP2 worked fine on one. Crippled the other and had to use the Dell rescue CDs.

Who told you they were the same ? At work we have 2 PC's "Exactly" the same, the serial has only 1 digit different.. Yet, one came with a WD hardisk, the other a Maxtor.

Another set, same model number but both have a different make PSU..

Edit;

a quick google search "SP2 Foxconn"

At first look, I'd say it's your mobo..

http://techrepublic.com.com/
http://channels.lockergnome.com
http://forums.pcworld.co.nz/
Google

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@Vincent,

Well, all I can think of is perhaps you have overclocked or some setting in the bios is causing trouble. So like mdma said, have you tried loading the default settings?

Most PC's I installed XP SP2 on it worked fine. I did however use a custom install CD (made with Nlite; wwwn.liteos.com) where I got rid of most unwanted stuff (printerdrivers, modem drivers and that kinda things) and had the correct drivers for the hardware that was installed on the target systems.. Took a while to get it totally right tho..

I didn't use the option for integrating any hotfixes tho, you may want to try that on your PC's. If you want to have another go that us.