Windows XP Hack

@Vincent

What exact CPU are you using?

You may need to install the AMD CPU driver update.

Athlon and Sempron
Athlon64 (For 32bit XP)

[Vincent]

@seer

Nope, I'm not keen on overclocking.  I've played around in the bios, but nothing has made a difference even using the default settings.

@mdma

I can't remember the old one (possibly a Pentium at 1.4ghz), but the new one is AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.83GHz.

On every installation I do (or update) I make sure that I've got everything that's needed for updating - including bios and other mobo stuff.

Nothing has made the slightest difference in installing SP2.  SP2 was installed from the same CD and none of them have reported any errors in the archive, but because of the problems I redownloaded it and tried that one.  The results were exactly the same on the same PCs.

Anyways I'm not touching SP2 with a 200 foot barge pole.  I't be easier to try and hit Bill Gates in the eye with it than install SP2 :-P

@Vincent

Bear in mind the CPU update driver was only released last week. :-)

Also, have you tried using windowsupdate to do the SP2 install?  It will only download the bits you need for your PC and nothing else.  Might work instead of using the full SP2 installer.

[Vincent]

Bear in mind the CPU update driver was only released last week. :-)

Yes, but they would've had an SP2 compatible updated cpu driver avaliable a while back.  I waited quite a while (months) to see what other people were experiencing with SP2 before I decided to try it.  I made sure I checked up on *everything* on all the PCs before even trying it.  If I was unsure about one thing I didn't try it (there are a few people who want it, but I didn't know what problems their h/w or s/w would've caused so I didn't bother).

I forgot about the automatic updates, but yeah I tried them and they caused the same problem.  I couldn't tell from the updater what was causing it either.

There's not much chance of me touching SP2 again.  At a push, if it's really really *really* really really[/b] necessary then I just might get round to doing it :-P