Win XP SP2 Boot Problem

[Guest]

After a full virus scan (no infection found) I successfully upgraded my XP
Home to SP2. Later Win Update offered 4 updates, one of them the NVIDIA
driver 52.16. I agreed for installation, however, after the recommended
restart I got a blue screen during boot. The error message indicated a VGA
driver problem. Then I booted in Safe Mode and fixed the driver problem
(uninstall, Driver Cleaner, re-install from NVIDIA site). As a result the PC
seems now to boot correctly, however, Norton AV gets neither started
automatically nor can it be forced to start manually. Symantec help file says
that this could occur when starting the PC in Save Mode. As a matter of fact
I can observe after normal boot start a white indication bar growing from
left to right, like during Save Mode boot. But the Save Mode screen doesn't
appear. The PC is also running slow, it takes e.g. 8 sec to open the control
panel. The task manager doesn't show unusal tasks running.
Can anybody comment on this behavior?

 

[Guest]

After I installed SP2, Windows Update listed a Nvidia Driver for my MX4000
card dated October 2003 as needed, but I had already installed a more recent
updated driver (July 2004) on my system. Something is seriously wrong with
SP2 on mine and from the messages on this site a lot of other computers. My
system ran smoothly for two years without SP2 and now I have habitual
freezeups, agonizingly slow performance, hangs and all other kinds of
disabling problems. It can't be a coincidence. Once again we find ourselves
Microsoft's guinea pigs for poorly researched and designed band aids that do
more to screw up our systems than help.