Service Packs

[Anderwolfe]

Soooo
I'm working on this computer project. The system previously had WinXP Home w/ no service packs. I went to load SP2 onto it and it loaded fine. It said a reboot was necessary, as usual, so I rebooted. It booted back up and loaded the WinXP splash screen, then a blue screen that said "Please wait..." Obviously it was for SP2 so I let it sit. I let it sit for about 30 minutes before finally doing a hard shutdown.

I booted it back up again and now after the WinXP splash screen, instead of going to the please wait, it was just a black screen. Now this is all I get. However it does boot up fine in safemode.

Does anyone have any ideas what's causing this problem? Or how to solve it?

 

[iPwn]

If it boots fine in safe mode then go to the control panel and do a system restore, you may have just had a bad sp installation.

 

[Anderwolfe]

I installed SP3 from SP2 in safe mode though, and the same thing happened.

 

[iPwn]

Right because something very bad went down during sp2 install, sp3 was a good idea but apparently didn't fix the issue. Can you still get to safe mode? If so restore that mofo and see what happens.

 

[Anderwolfe]

Right because something very bad went down during sp2 install, sp3 was a good idea but apparently didn't fix the issue. Can you still get to safe mode? If so restore that mofo and see what happens.

Alright, I'll give that a go.