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#1 2009-05-02 1:25 am
- sturner
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XP SP3 Upgrade blues, again.
My boot Camp installaiton finally asked to be upgraded to SP3. I foolishly went along.
During reboot, the system stayed on the start up screen (Windows) with Please wait... message. After 10 minutes I reset power.
Then it came up asking for safe boot (Windows), but it wouldn't recognize the Apple keyboard.
I attached a PC keyboard (PS2 to USB adapter, it worked), and selected safe boot, completed boot and restarted.
It checked the disk successfully upon reboot but wouldn't go to the login screen only a black screen.
Any ideas to fix this? Do I need to reinstall Windows? Do an OS repair from the Windows install CD?
Help
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#2 2009-05-02 5:28 am
- Bat
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- From: Björk, Björk
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Re: XP SP3 Upgrade blues, again.
We can't have this! It's impairing your zumbie-killing.
No time now, but the assembled brain trust (mm, brains) hereabouts will put this to rights.
Meanwhile you can explain to Books about Warren already covering the sleeping when dead thing.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion - George Bernard Shaw
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#3 2009-05-02 8:46 am
- Booksley
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Re: XP SP3 Upgrade blues, again.
sturner wrote:
My boot Camp installaiton finally asked to be upgraded to SP3. I foolishly went along.
During reboot, the system stayed on the start up screen (Windows) with Please wait... message. After 10 minutes I reset power.
Then it came up asking for safe boot (Windows), but it wouldn't recognize the Apple keyboard.
I attached a PC keyboard (PS2 to USB adapter, it worked), and selected safe boot, completed boot and restarted.
It checked the disk successfully upon reboot but wouldn't go to the login screen only a black screen.
Any ideas to fix this? Do I need to reinstall Windows? Do an OS repair from the Windows install CD?
Help
What version of the Boot Camp drivers did you have installed?
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#4 2009-05-02 10:27 am
- sturner
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Re: XP SP3 Upgrade blues, again.
I had put in 2.1. I remember doing it. But God knows if I did.
When I have time today, I'm going to try to recover with the repair feature from the Windows install disk.
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
"There are few things graven in stone, excepting your date of death."
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#5 2009-05-03 3:08 am
- Bat
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Re: XP SP3 Upgrade blues, again.
sturner wrote:
When I have time today, I'm going to try to recover with the repair feature from the Windows install disk.
You might also try slipstreaming SP3 into your XP disk, then installing the newer drivers etc.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion - George Bernard Shaw
"Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."
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#6 2009-05-04 10:10 am
- sturner
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Re: XP SP3 Upgrade blues, again.
At the very least I have an image of my partition now and when I try to upgrade again, in about 3 months (that's when Microsoft will tell me that I need to upgrade for SP2 to SP3) then I will have a way to go back to a good system without the pain of reinstalling.
6 hours of work to get the damn thing back up.
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
"There are few things graven in stone, excepting your date of death."
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