- Joined
- May 10, 2004
- Location
- Brooklyn
Okay, so i put together a new machine for the rest of my family,
specs-
P4 2.8 Prescott
SOYO SY-P4I865PE Plus Dragon2 V1.0
512 MB PC-3200 Mushkin DDR Enhanced RAM
160 GB Samsung HD
Fx5500 OC video card
DVD/CDRW Combo drive
400W Rosewill ATX PSU
Floppy drive
Fairly decent for basic stuff no? and it only cost ~$600
The point is, i installed XP Pro, all the device drivers and Norton Anti-Virus 2k4, then i started doing windows updates. the first buncha updates worked fine, rebooted, then it asked to install SP2, so i ok'ed it. Downloaded, installed, rebooted...and XP hangs on loading screen at the same place every time. I tried safe mode, last good config, playing with the BIOS, nothing! So i re-formatted.
This time FRESH copy of XP, nothing else installed, no drivers, no nothing. I install the first bunch of updates again, seems fine. Then i installed SP2 AGAIN, and yet again, it hangs on XP loading...wtf is going on here???
specs-
P4 2.8 Prescott
SOYO SY-P4I865PE Plus Dragon2 V1.0
512 MB PC-3200 Mushkin DDR Enhanced RAM
160 GB Samsung HD
Fx5500 OC video card
DVD/CDRW Combo drive
400W Rosewill ATX PSU
Floppy drive
Fairly decent for basic stuff no? and it only cost ~$600
The point is, i installed XP Pro, all the device drivers and Norton Anti-Virus 2k4, then i started doing windows updates. the first buncha updates worked fine, rebooted, then it asked to install SP2, so i ok'ed it. Downloaded, installed, rebooted...and XP hangs on loading screen at the same place every time. I tried safe mode, last good config, playing with the BIOS, nothing! So i re-formatted.
This time FRESH copy of XP, nothing else installed, no drivers, no nothing. I install the first bunch of updates again, seems fine. Then i installed SP2 AGAIN, and yet again, it hangs on XP loading...wtf is going on here???