SP 2 Roasted the Parents computer THE WORLD IS GOING TO END

[Weezwax]

Hey,

Just posting this to see if other people have also
experienced the same problem as I.

I am always very cautious when doing any massive upgrade
on any computer. That is why I dropped SP 2 in a test
machine and it went in fine. Eveything worked and was
smooth. Then I decided to drop it into the Tablet PC..
Good that worked as well. My main very important desktop,
yup worked as well.

Parents machine with important family photos and work
documents " I HERE BY SENTENCE YOU TO COMPUTER HELL!" I
heard MS technicians joking while pretending to be on
hold to support. After updating SP2 on there reccent 2.8
prescott 1 gb power video monster machine it craps on
boot screen and just locks. You can't get into any safe
mode at all to undo what you just did.

I have reinstalled XP on the same partition and tried
again. Still no go. SP2 completely kills this machine.

hardware list
---------------------
Aopen M-Board (Fairly high end)
Intel 2.8 400fsb prescoot
1Gb Kingston (512x2)
160Gb Seagate
ATI Radeon 64mb
ATI Tv Wonder
Sound Blaster 5.1
OnBoard Nic
LG DVd Super multi drive.
XP Pro

Got back and was able to caputure the important
information.

NOW CAN ANY BRAINIAC FIGURE OUT WHAT is wrong with this
situation? The machine had all he updates that were
available installed, including SP1.
-Desktop and Parents machine were on the same copy of XP
as per license and my desktop isn't far off component
wise.

Will the offical SP2 be different!? I can't imagine what
would happen if 30% of CPU's that got this update died
like this one. The world will end and MS will continue to
lose further credibility and the LINUX WORLD WILL TAKE
IT'S RIGHTFUL THROWN! It's dangerous if everyone runs the
same OS. Imagine finding the golden bullet of code that
would take down everything. That would be some
devistating damange mr.gates couldn't cover with the
billions saved up...or could he? I'm blabbering.....sorry.

Somebody shoot me!!!!!!! Please. Many blessings to the
person that figure out the solution. You'd be almost next
to God if you did.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

"Desktop and Parents machine were on the same copy of XP as per
license"
Really?
You need to read the EULA again.
You can install some versions of Office on more than one computer but
never more than one for consumer Microsoft operating system.

"Will the offical SP2 be different"
What do you mean?
The "official SP-2"has been out more than a week.
What did you install?
The pre-release versions are not intended for a production computer or
am computer with important data.

You tried Safe Mode, did you also try "Last known good configuration"?

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

"Desktop and Parents machine were on the same copy of XP as per
license"
Really?
You need to read the EULA again.
You can install some versions of Office on more than one computer but
never more than one for consumer Microsoft operating system.

I reckon he's another of those that thinks CPU = system. Therefore, XP Pro =
1-2 CPU = 1-2 systems, right? ;o) <eg>.

 

[Reading Alot]

The problem of SP2 not installing on Prescott/ Celerons)
and Extreme Edition
CPUs has been identified.

It appears to be due to the machine's BIOS not installing
a production level
microcode update.

To check whether the BlOS is at the correct level
download the Intel
Processor Frequency ID utility from:

http://support.intel.com/support/processors/tools/frequenc
yid/

The microcode version is identified by this utility
as "CPU Revision"

So for this CPU:

· CPU Family = 15

· CPU Model = 3

· CPU Stepping = 4

The microcode revision should be at least 8 (if it is
zero, then no
microcode update was installed at all):

· CPU Revision = 8

If the revisions is not 8, then boot into Safe Mode.
Rename the file
%windir%\system32\drivers\update.sys so that it does not
load.

Reboot into 'normal' mode. Apply the SP2 upgrade file
and the failure to
boot should not recur. Check your motherboard
manufacturers' website often
for updates to your BIOS as this is a temporary
workaround and can cause
instability.