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Christoph
I dragged one of my old PCs out of the closet to give to a relative who
really only needs it for email. It's a Gateway P3 500mhz with 384mb of ram.
The only thing that isn't stock is a NVIDIA GeForce MX 420 I put into it a
few years after I bought it.
So I stick in an old 10GB drive I had laying around and and installed XP.
The entire install process went fine and the first thing I start doing is
applying updates. I continue going to the windows update page, selecting
the required/recommended updates, downloading & installing those updates and
rebooting until it SP2 finally comes up as an option.
I select SP2 and download it. It starts to install but just hangs there.
For hours if I let it (and I have). I've tried this twice and each time it
hangs at the point where it says it's "Inspecting your current
configuration" with details saying "Performing inventory". I've opened the
taks manager and it doesn't appear to be locked/not responding. But it also
doesn't appear to be doing anything.
So I think that maybe there is something currently on the machine (although,
the only things I've installed thus far are XP and the updates, nothing
else) and decide to just go through the upate process (again and again) and
select those updates that aren't SP2. About 45 minutes later, the ONLY
update left for me to apply is SP2. I figure it's now time to try again and
begin the process. Problem is, the install is hung in the exact same place
it got hung up before.
Is there any other way I can try to apply SP2? I know the service pack is,
by and large (although, there are other elements as well), just an
amalgamation of other updates. Is there any way I can apply these updates
individually? If so, where can I get them because they aren't showing up on
the windows update page? Additionally, where can I get things like the new
Security Center?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
thnx,
Christoph
really only needs it for email. It's a Gateway P3 500mhz with 384mb of ram.
The only thing that isn't stock is a NVIDIA GeForce MX 420 I put into it a
few years after I bought it.
So I stick in an old 10GB drive I had laying around and and installed XP.
The entire install process went fine and the first thing I start doing is
applying updates. I continue going to the windows update page, selecting
the required/recommended updates, downloading & installing those updates and
rebooting until it SP2 finally comes up as an option.
I select SP2 and download it. It starts to install but just hangs there.
For hours if I let it (and I have). I've tried this twice and each time it
hangs at the point where it says it's "Inspecting your current
configuration" with details saying "Performing inventory". I've opened the
taks manager and it doesn't appear to be locked/not responding. But it also
doesn't appear to be doing anything.
So I think that maybe there is something currently on the machine (although,
the only things I've installed thus far are XP and the updates, nothing
else) and decide to just go through the upate process (again and again) and
select those updates that aren't SP2. About 45 minutes later, the ONLY
update left for me to apply is SP2. I figure it's now time to try again and
begin the process. Problem is, the install is hung in the exact same place
it got hung up before.
Is there any other way I can try to apply SP2? I know the service pack is,
by and large (although, there are other elements as well), just an
amalgamation of other updates. Is there any way I can apply these updates
individually? If so, where can I get them because they aren't showing up on
the windows update page? Additionally, where can I get things like the new
Security Center?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
thnx,
Christoph
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