Rebooting woes

[Guest]

I've recently reinstalled windows xp after a horrible accident involving
having my old partition deleted. I installed the drivers and antiviruses,
firewalls etc, then SP2 and after I'm done with SP2 I ran windows update with
31 security updates. After the computer restarts, it keeps rebooting right
before it reaches the logon screen every time. I am very sure this is caused
by one of the hotfixes that I installed from windows update, but which one?

I'd like to know 1) which patch causes this so I can avoid installing it and
2) is there a cumulative post SP2 patch that does NOT cause this problem?

 

[Guest]

If you have not been able to log in after the updates, try using the "Last
Known Good Configuration" option. Just as an FYI though, this will not work
if you have logged in after the updates. The LKGC resets itself to your
current login state after you login.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, windows reboots regardless of any modes listed in safe mode.
Using recovery console I browsed into lastgood.tmp to find it empty...

I dare not update windows for now....

 

[S.Sengupta]

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Rock]

I've recently reinstalled windows xp after a horrible accident involving
having my old partition deleted. I installed the drivers and antiviruses,
firewalls etc, then SP2 and after I'm done with SP2 I ran windows update with
31 security updates. After the computer restarts, it keeps rebooting right
before it reaches the logon screen every time. I am very sure this is caused
by one of the hotfixes that I installed from windows update, but which one?

I'd like to know 1) which patch causes this so I can avoid installing it and
2) is there a cumulative post SP2 patch that does NOT cause this problem?

Since you can't get into XP there's not much you can do except a repair
install, and if that doesn't work a clean install. Next time only
install a few updates at a time and make a system image after each group
of updates are installed successfully. If the problem happens again you
can restore to the most recent image and will have narrowed the list of
culprits.

 

[Guest]

I've sucessfully reinstalled windows not once but 3 times using clean
install. Windows crashes each time the update runs...

and about the system image...how do I do it? what software to use? roxio
goback?

 

[Guest]

Quick question for you. Does your PC have a SATA HD in it?

I have seen quite often XP will run fine until it is updated. It looks like
the updates try to update the SATA drivers and fail. If this is the case,
make sure you use the latest F6 drivers for your motherboard when doing the
initial install of Windows.

 

[Guest]

Yep my PC does have a SATA disk in it. It's used as a backup HD....F6 Drivers?

 

[Rock]

I've sucessfully reinstalled windows not once but 3 times using clean
install. Windows crashes each time the update runs...

and about the system image...how do I do it? what software to use? roxio
goback?

:

Do you do only a few updates at a time as suggested? Programs that do
imaging are Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image and Terabyye Unlimited's
Image for Windows, among others. I have no experience with Roxio's Goback.

 

[Guest]

I havent tried yet because I dont have imaging software..will try as soon as
I get it. By the way, the SATA hdd issue...? would it help if I disconnect my
SATA drive?

 

[Rock]

I havent tried yet because I dont have imaging software..will try as soon as
I get it. By the way, the SATA hdd issue...? would it help if I disconnect my
SATA drive?

Sorry but I can't help you with the SATA questions.

 

[Guest]

Are you installing Windows to an IDE driver or SATA drive?

If the IDE drive, you don't have to worry about F6 drivers.