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Hi!
It took me all day to research this -- but I did find an
answer that worked.
Go back in this forum to 10-30-2003. There is a post
by "brad" with a response/answer that fixed this
problem. In that post, the problem appears to be a
cryptographic-related issue. The solution in that post
worked for me, although there are no detailed
instructions (found another place for that, see below).
In a nutshell, this is what I did: Changed the Catroot2
name to oldcatroot2 through the run/cmd line.
After I took this step, I was able to get SP1 (could not
do so before) and upgrade from Directx 8.1 to Directx 9.0.
There is a step by step instruction guide, very easy to
use, here:
http://www.updatexp.com/cryptographic-service.html
I know that this guide is for the cryptographic service,
and getting the SP1 update, but as a side benefit, when I
did the steps outlined here, this seemed to also fix the
DX 9 problem (cut and pasted from the guide link above):
Click Start menu, and then click the Run icon.
In the small box that Opens, type the three letters:
cmd then click the OK button.
In the command prompt window that just opened (a black
background and white text), type the following commands,
pressing the ENTER key on your keyboard after each line:
net stop cryptsvc
ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 oldcatroot2
net start cryptsvc
Now type exit to close the command prompt window, and
then try to security patch 823980. It should now work...
You may in some rare instances have to reboot your
machine again first, so give this a try if it fails
again...
In any case, take a look at that URL concerning
Cryptographics -- like I said, this is what fixed my
problem. Good luck.
It took me all day to research this -- but I did find an
answer that worked.
Go back in this forum to 10-30-2003. There is a post
by "brad" with a response/answer that fixed this
problem. In that post, the problem appears to be a
cryptographic-related issue. The solution in that post
worked for me, although there are no detailed
instructions (found another place for that, see below).
In a nutshell, this is what I did: Changed the Catroot2
name to oldcatroot2 through the run/cmd line.
After I took this step, I was able to get SP1 (could not
do so before) and upgrade from Directx 8.1 to Directx 9.0.
There is a step by step instruction guide, very easy to
use, here:
http://www.updatexp.com/cryptographic-service.html
I know that this guide is for the cryptographic service,
and getting the SP1 update, but as a side benefit, when I
did the steps outlined here, this seemed to also fix the
DX 9 problem (cut and pasted from the guide link above):
Click Start menu, and then click the Run icon.
In the small box that Opens, type the three letters:
cmd then click the OK button.
In the command prompt window that just opened (a black
background and white text), type the following commands,
pressing the ENTER key on your keyboard after each line:
net stop cryptsvc
ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 oldcatroot2
net start cryptsvc
Now type exit to close the command prompt window, and
then try to security patch 823980. It should now work...
You may in some rare instances have to reboot your
machine again first, so give this a try if it fails
again...
In any case, take a look at that URL concerning
Cryptographics -- like I said, this is what fixed my
problem. Good luck.