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by micahfay

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I have just installed windows xp pro on a compaq presario 7000 series .. when going to windows update i am not able to complete driver updates. They will download but fail during installation. Anyone have any suggestions? I also had probs getting the critical updates done, but was able to get them done.

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by Member 31909303

Are you running behind a firewall? If not you may be infected with a virus which is preventing access to MS update site. I had this problem with blaster worm.

If it is the above, get a firewall (www.zonelabs.com zonealarm, free and works great) check for applicable virus and do necessary to remove then reload patches from MS site.

Hope this helps. KO

by micahfay

OK, no viruses .... reloaded xp pro ... installed critical updates w/o probs ... however when i went to update drivers this time, the download was fine and it installed, but upon the restart the pc would not boot. Had to go to last known good.... driver in question is for Nvidia geforce4 mx 420 ... every time i do this update and then reboot system crashes during reboot and i have to go to last known good.... is it poss that my bios needs to be flashed or is it something else?

by brian

I found some cards dont work right with the windows driver updates. - Nvidia and ATI cards.
I get the drivers directly from nvidia or ati and don't do that Windows driver update.

If you have problems with XPSP1 installing, it may be the Windows code on the disk- Microsoft locked out some OEM and "compromised" codes. If yhis is happening you can check the code and change it using what is called the magical jelly bean finder. It can be downloaded from http://www.magicaljellybean.com/

The way you describe it - it sounds like just the driver. I might also add that the standard mouse driver somehow messed up my video (made it slow and jerky) until I downloaded the (in my case) logitech driver.

by micahfay

2nd suggestion almost worked ... was able to boot to desktop, but when clicking on anything system crashed .. had to boot to safe mode and uninstall the hardware and then rollback the driver before system would boot up. Any other suggestions. I'm beginning to think that a new motherboard is in order.

by wlbowers

I have gotten where I check the manufactures site for driver updates.

Microsoft should stay out of the driver business. Everytime I download a driver from updates it hoses up something.

Go to Nvidia and check for updates.

Lee

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