XP Serice Pack 2 Installation Problem

[manny1975]

Hi all, I was trying to install XP service pack 2 into my computer and almost near to the end of the installation it reboots itself and starts off to install itself again. I have used this disc before on my mother's computer and it installed just fine. I tried going to microsoft to see if there were any problems with this and t said that some mobo's have difficulty installing it. Any ideas as to how I can get around this?

[SufferWell1396]

actually, it might be the Harddrive failing. Does the Mobo meet every single reqirement of XP?

[Paul Komski]

Boot or shutdown problems after Service Pack 2 installation

Reboot loop

If your computer is set to reboot automatically after a blue screen crash, you may never get to see the blue screen. In that case press F8 after the BIOS boot phase, when Windows begins to boot from the hard disk. You may have to press F8 a few times to hit the right time.

Then select the choice (new with Service Pack 2): Disable automatic restart on system failure.

from http://winhlp.com/WxSP2.htm

If you have access to a CD burner consider making a slipstreamed installation CD with SP2 incorporated into it so that SP2 is installed along with the OS.

Autostreamer (http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562) is a helpful program to achieve such slipstreaming.

[LadyGrey]

Paul thanks for the links! Do you suppose that AutoStreamer could be used to make a bootable CD as well as SS the SP?
LG;)

[Paul Komski]

Autostreamer creates a boot sector, (a microsoft boot sector), that uses no emulation - it's a customised boot sector for the NT installations and though you can add stuff that can be found on the HDD after the installation it is not a good method for creating a bootable CD because it will just execute when booted to. Most DIY bootable CDs use floppy emulation such that they boot-up, usually to DOS, and behave as if they were a floppy. This leaves approx 600MB still available on the (normal non-bootsector) part of the CD for DATA files of your choosing. To access this part of the CD when you boot to it you must include CD drivers in the floppy emulation image. In other words that image must be a boot floppy WITH CDROM SUPPORT.

Most burning software simplifies a way of making your own boot CDs by copying a boot floppy in the A: drive to the sector on the CD; some can also use a floppy image file.

If you want to try it out you can download and unzip my own zmakeiso.zip (http://www.iol.ie/~krakowangus/sbm/zmakeiso.zip) file for making bootable (non-bootable if no floppy image) iso files, which you can then burn at your will. Place the unzipped zmakeiso folder in the C: drive. Place a bootable floppy image into its zfiles folder (loads of floppy images at bootdisc.com). Place any other files and folders you want on the eventual CD also into the zfiles folder. Then run C:\zmakeiso\go.bat and the .iso should be made inside the zmakeiso folder.

[LadyGrey]

:cool: Coool, thanks much!


LG;)