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Old January 11th 05, 10:19 PM
Civious
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Default XP restarts after SP2 installed

One of our Dell PCs began restarting before login after SP2 was installed. I
formatted the hard drive, made a new partition, installed the operating
system again. I began installing the updates and when I update to SP2 I get
a message about windows\system32\config\system file is corrupt. The computer
will not restart correctly, it has begun restarting on its own again.

This is a Dell Dimension 4400 P4 1.6 GHz; 256M RAM.

No other software has been installed yet.

Thank you.
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Old January 11th 05, 10:54 PM
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Default XP restarts after SP2 installed

Follow the Service Pack Installation Checklist:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm

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"Civious" wrote in message
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One of our Dell PCs began restarting before login after SP2 was installed.
I
formatted the hard drive, made a new partition, installed the operating
system again. I began installing the updates and when I update to SP2 I
get
a message about windows\system32\config\system file is corrupt. The
computer
will not restart correctly, it has begun restarting on its own again.

This is a Dell Dimension 4400 P4 1.6 GHz; 256M RAM.

No other software has been installed yet.

Thank you.



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Old January 11th 05, 11:03 PM
jazz
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Default XP restarts after SP2 installed

try getting the install for xp sp2 for the it profesonals. I too have seen
problems like this were the install fails and leaves the system like that. i
downloaded the one that said to install on multiple computers and
everythign always went well after. I'm not sure the cause but having the
entire file was the answer.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...p2.mspx#EABCAA



"Civious" wrote in message
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One of our Dell PCs began restarting before login after SP2 was installed.

I
formatted the hard drive, made a new partition, installed the operating
system again. I began installing the updates and when I update to SP2 I

get
a message about windows\system32\config\system file is corrupt. The

computer
will not restart correctly, it has begun restarting on its own again.

This is a Dell Dimension 4400 P4 1.6 GHz; 256M RAM.

No other software has been installed yet.

Thank you.



 




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