Could XP SP3 update do this ..

[Luke7777]

or is it coincidence ?
Upgraded one of the PCs with service pack 3 (XP Home btw). Ran into "access denied" issues during installation, so I followed the instructions here pertaining to the run of reset.cmd. SP3 then installed successfully. Shutdown the box (had to go out) , came back later, switched on and..."no signal" on monitor, machine auto reboots, "no signal", etc, etc. Safe mode same thing...

Any ideas....?

 

[LazyLion]

Is it an AMD machine?

 

[Brawler]

No. Hardware failure somewhere if you ask me.
I will wait for the techie to respond

 

[Luke7777]

AMD box. Disabled the auto-reboot and got the STOP C0000139 error ... investigating

 

[LazyLion]

AMD box. Disabled the auto-reboot and got the STOP C0000139 error ... investigating

XP SP3 is know to cause issues with AMD machines... read here...

http://www.google.com/search?q=XP+S...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[Luke7777]

lol, now I need a Windows CD (of which I have 3 legal ones) and can't find them...

 

[|tera|]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953356/en-us

As per Gary's Google link

 

[Luke7777]

Didn't get those errors

 

[|tera|]

Didn't get those errors

Do you have an HP Desktop?

 

[Luke7777]

Sorted. Did the following (taken from the technet link in my previous post) :

1. boot from a Windows CD and go for the repair option.

2. Copy gdi32.dll from c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\gdi32.dll to c:\windows\system32\gdi32.dll. (Do keep a backup copy of the old gdi32.dll in c:\windows\system32 directory)

3. Reboot normally

Moral of the story :

When you take a service pack from work to save bandwidth at home, make sure it's a recent build

 

[Luke7777]

Do you have an HP Desktop?

No respectable person have an HP desktop at home

 

[|tera|]

Cool