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Major Problems with sp2 on e-machine pc.

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by jamescay1

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installed sp2 with no problems. The install appeared to go ok, so when it finished, I turned off the computer.
The next time I turned on the computer, it did everything normally until it got to the desk top screen, before it finished loading, it rebooted 8 or 9 times, then went black and stopped responding. It would not turn off, or reboot, or anything.
After several months of trying everything that microsoft sugested,to no avail, I turned it on, it started,and left this message, System CMOS checksum bad - Default configuration used. Then it stopped responding again, rebooted itself and went black.
Turned it off, then on, it started, used f8, safemode, the screen blinked, and left this message, NTLDR is missing press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
What do I do now, please, somebody help.

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by p.j.hutchison

Could be a driver problem, I suggest upgrading as many drivers as possible before installing SP2 to fix it.
The number of reboots may has caused some file corruption hence the NTLDR (NT Loader) file is corrupt. Doing a repair install will fix this.
After installing SP2, the system will not show the desktop immediately as it will be reconfiguring itself during this time, then the desktop will show up. This is normal.

by jamescay1

I tried to restore useing factory cd,it went to 18%,stopped responding and went black. I've disabled auto reboot but it dosen't seem to matter. Was able to get into settings, date & time was a mess so I corrected that and left everything else as is, because I wouldn't know what to change if I seen it. Was able to get into safe mode but when it finished loading it froze. No matter what I try, the computer will run for about three minutes, reboot and go black.

by kevin.square

you didn't mention if you checked that bios was up-to-date before sp2 install.

Also, idea behind sp2 firewall is that it is active before desktop comes up so it may be fighting with a worm or virus previously on the machine.

After a couple months of fighting with it, it's time to call in a tech to save what they can from your drive and scratch the machine.

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