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by jiml72

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I am quite experienced in installing NT4 Server & workstation, however, for some reason I am having a problem I have never experienced before, I can not sucessfully install a Service Pack. I have tried SP3 through to SP6a. The SP installs ok, although it seems, but up on rebooting SP1 is shown as being installed and then at the logon screen I get an error message relating to spoolss.dll and .exe. I would appreciate any help anyone could give me as this is something I have never come across before.
Thanks in advance.

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by brettcard

I haven't seen it much either and have been looking arround and it seems that the Service pack is not completely installing all the way. What you might want to try is installing the Service pack in Safe mode or stopping all third party services or programs from running in the background. If you have no programs on this computer then I would have to say that there is some type of hardware issue going on here and I am thinking that it might deal with memory, cache, or hard drive.

by ann777

It could also be a storage space issue, since so many of the service packs attempt to write temporary files and then install.

How much available space do you have on the hdd?

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