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Hello all,
I am having some seriously frustrating problems with SP2...that is, nothing
works.
I have two computers that are giving me headaches, an acient Dell that I
have upgraded with XP SP2, and my own home-built puter: "The AntiChrist".
I have recently installed SP1 on my new RAID array on the AntiChrist and
then upgraded with an SP2 cd. On the Dinosaur Dell, I upgraded from 98 SE
with an XP upgrade-cd that had SP2 built in. Both computers have exhibited
the same problems:
1. Disk Defragmenter can't do anything, a look in Event Viewer shows that
Defragmenter needs some service to be one in order to work. (sorry, I can't
remember what service) Even though that service and every other associated
service is running. (I CAN remeber that!)
2. Autoplaying a cd is impossible. Another glance in Event Viewer shows that
the 'RPC Server' isn't avialible. I've looked everywhere, including the
registry, and have found no sign of this service/program.
3. I can't access anything in the Microsoft Managment Console. Same thing: I
get an error message complaining about the RPC Server being unavailible.
4. Disk Manager doesn't work, it complains that I need to setup an exception
for it in Windows Firewall, even though I already did. I disabled the
Firewall and still got the error message.
These are just some of the idiotic problems that have plagued both PC's.
So what did I do? I said: "Ta hell with SP2!". I uninstalled SP2 (cause it
was just an upgrade) on the AntiChrist, and guess what? Everything worked!
ARRRGHHHH!!!
Because SP2 is built into XP on the Dell, I can't uninstall it.
The only similarity between the two PCs is that both have an ACPI HAL, and
that's it.
Can anyone tell me what could be wrong? Did I miss something? Or is SP2 just
plain sh*t?
Thanks to anyone who can help!
I am having some seriously frustrating problems with SP2...that is, nothing
works.
I have two computers that are giving me headaches, an acient Dell that I
have upgraded with XP SP2, and my own home-built puter: "The AntiChrist".
I have recently installed SP1 on my new RAID array on the AntiChrist and
then upgraded with an SP2 cd. On the Dinosaur Dell, I upgraded from 98 SE
with an XP upgrade-cd that had SP2 built in. Both computers have exhibited
the same problems:
1. Disk Defragmenter can't do anything, a look in Event Viewer shows that
Defragmenter needs some service to be one in order to work. (sorry, I can't
remember what service) Even though that service and every other associated
service is running. (I CAN remeber that!)
2. Autoplaying a cd is impossible. Another glance in Event Viewer shows that
the 'RPC Server' isn't avialible. I've looked everywhere, including the
registry, and have found no sign of this service/program.
3. I can't access anything in the Microsoft Managment Console. Same thing: I
get an error message complaining about the RPC Server being unavailible.
4. Disk Manager doesn't work, it complains that I need to setup an exception
for it in Windows Firewall, even though I already did. I disabled the
Firewall and still got the error message.
These are just some of the idiotic problems that have plagued both PC's.
So what did I do? I said: "Ta hell with SP2!". I uninstalled SP2 (cause it
was just an upgrade) on the AntiChrist, and guess what? Everything worked!
ARRRGHHHH!!!
Because SP2 is built into XP on the Dell, I can't uninstall it.
The only similarity between the two PCs is that both have an ACPI HAL, and
that's it.
Can anyone tell me what could be wrong? Did I miss something? Or is SP2 just
plain sh*t?
Thanks to anyone who can help!