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I've just setup XP+SP2 on a brand new box.
Installed XP
Installed SP2
Graphics drivers
M/board drivers
Reboots between all and then a couple of cold ones for good measure.
All was looking good.
Decided to change the picture/icon for the sole admin user account. Did
that and closed out. Then thought to change the password also so clicked
again on 'Users and accounts' but it wouldn't open and I got an error
message instead - a problem with 'mshta'. I tried a couple times but same
error. I decided to reboot. Now it gets to the Windows logo, briefly,
then goes black and there is a quick flash of a blue screen (so fast I
can't read it) and it starts to boot again. It keeps doing this.
I have a thread a little ways above this one:
'How do I get rid of warning balloon when Win Update turned off.'
Elmo got me sorted on that. I also turned off the firewall. The machine
wasn't going online until I finished setting it up (hours to go).
I didn't want to install SP2 but the motherboard required it for USB2.0
and the onboard audio.
I've tried unplugging everthing except the HDD and tried all the sata
connections, different power leads to the drive, but I'm stumped. As I
said, it was all looking sweet so I dunno what's gone wrong.
The only thing I can think of is to try an install of Win2k+SP3 or 4 (for
the mobo requirements) or a Linux distro!
Any ideas welcome.
Installed XP
Installed SP2
Graphics drivers
M/board drivers
Reboots between all and then a couple of cold ones for good measure.
All was looking good.
Decided to change the picture/icon for the sole admin user account. Did
that and closed out. Then thought to change the password also so clicked
again on 'Users and accounts' but it wouldn't open and I got an error
message instead - a problem with 'mshta'. I tried a couple times but same
error. I decided to reboot. Now it gets to the Windows logo, briefly,
then goes black and there is a quick flash of a blue screen (so fast I
can't read it) and it starts to boot again. It keeps doing this.
I have a thread a little ways above this one:
'How do I get rid of warning balloon when Win Update turned off.'
Elmo got me sorted on that. I also turned off the firewall. The machine
wasn't going online until I finished setting it up (hours to go).
I didn't want to install SP2 but the motherboard required it for USB2.0
and the onboard audio.
I've tried unplugging everthing except the HDD and tried all the sata
connections, different power leads to the drive, but I'm stumped. As I
said, it was all looking sweet so I dunno what's gone wrong.
The only thing I can think of is to try an install of Win2k+SP3 or 4 (for
the mobo requirements) or a Linux distro!
Any ideas welcome.