SP1 Forever? (Stop50)

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Frank Haber

I have in front of me an otherwise fully functional Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop,
384MB, Cel2.4 (the hot-pistol one), XPSP1. I've gone beyond Jupiter's
checklist and positively scoured the machine for malware. It's up to date
with WGA and all critical updates (note distinction (g)). It's updated to
Dell's latest drivers. I've tried single SIMM, and two sets of two SIMMs, all
previously checked in other machines that take DDR2100.

Nevertheless, on six tries, from net, CD and HD .EXE, the SP2 setup fails at
about the same point, right after the backup, at the beginning of "copy
files," with a page_fault_in_nonpaged_area, Stop50. All apps run fine, as do
all the loaded apps, as have some pretty demanding diagnostics. CHDSK /F and
/R have completed fine. I've tried with nothing plugged into the machine, and
the CD-RW pulled.

I don't know what else to do, and October looms. Questions:

1. Is it worth trying a safemode sp2 update? Does that ever work?

2. Antispyware suggestions for a not-fast, 384 RAM machine? MS Antispy beta 1
drops dead this weekend, yes?

Thanks,
Frank
 
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Frank Haber

Humorous sidebar:

The MS 'support' page for this STOP error, when you send off your minidump,
says, "This problem will be fixed in the next release of Vista."

Salesmanship run amok?
 
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Frank Haber

Slipstream? There is only a nuke CD with this Dell. I have a slipstreamed
SP2 retail. Are you telling me that that can do a [R]epair install from the
console on an SP1 machine? Have you done this? Any comments on Safe Mode?

I *have* the latest security updates from Redmond already (for XP1).

Any other takers?

-f
 
J

Jerry

You don't do a repair install from the console - you boot from the
slipstreamed CD and then try doing a repair.
 
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