I bought a computer with Win XP Home, back when it first came out. It was even formatted in fat 32, I suppose because T.D. didn’t know what they were doing. It came with restore disks that had a drive image on them instead of an actual copy of XP Home, and after I had to replace the motherboard, when the caps went bad, I could no longer use the restore disk. Too much hardware had changed and it wouldn’t restore any more. I used a copy of Norton Ghost to restore the drive image to a secondary slave in my computer.
Everything is fine until I try to install XP service pack two. The installation goes fine, but when the machine reboots, it won’t load windows, and gets stuck in a reboot loop. I can start it in safe mode, uninstall sp2, and it is fine afterwards, but I would like it to be fully updated and running well too.
I have tried to install sp2 before adding drivers, after adding drivers, Fat 32, NTFS, downloaded from windows update, and with my stand alone copy. The only thing I could find at MS was something about unix drivers for a scanner causing a reboot loop.I haven’t installed any scanners. Also somthing about AMD 64 bit processors, and dep. I followed some instructions and disabled that but it didn’t help.
What order should I update this old build to insure sp2 installs correctly?
ASUS A8v Deluxe, AMD64 3200+ , WD Raptor/W XP Pro, 2G Samsung ddr, WD 30G HDD/W XP Home,