When I'm installing the latest service pack on my service pack 2 system, a prompt stating "A device attached to the system is not functioning." The update had to roll back and undo the changes. I restarted the system and tried again but the same problem stil persist. What is the cause of this?
Before SP3, did you start with: -a fully updated SP2? M$ Updates selected by type: High Priority - Are there ANY further updates available? -a clean Registry? Did you use a Regcleaner prior trying to update to SP3? -a defragmented HDD? Did you defragment the HDD prior trying to update to SP3? -a backed up HDD? Did you "image-backup" the HDD prior trying to update to SP3? -(Go to) Start-Control Panel-System-System Properties-Hardware TAB-Device Manager-View Devices by connection-<computer name>-ACPI Multiprocessor PC-Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System-PCI bus - ANY yellow icons here?? (from uninstalled devices) -what is your computer brand? -what M$ Windows version do you have? OEM? VLK? RETAIL? -what are the 1st ~10 characters, of the number, written in (Go to) Start-Control Panel-System-System Properties-General TAB - BELOW "Registered to:"? -what SP3 source did you use? M$ download: "Windows XP Service Pack 3 - ISO-9660 CD Image File" or "Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers"? -did you slipstream SP3 with old M$ install disk into nLite ISO-file? -Was this of any help for you? -POST HERE, LET US KNOW how it went! ...
The computer I'm using is a self-fix (DIY) computer. I got a Original Dell XP SP1a installed into the system. Then, I fully updated it to SP2 from Microsoft Update. The SP3 source is also from Microsoft Update. The computer's 2 160 GB HDD is newly fixed - less than a few days old, so i didn't defrag and back it up. There is no yellow icons under device manager. The computer is registered to me, with the product key of 55274-OEM-... So, the version is an OEM then.
After trying to install SP3 from the "Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers", my computer has successfully been updated. Thanks for your the help and advices given =)
Sp2 ->sp3 Just want to backup a point James 33 made. No matter what MS "fix" I tried, I could not update directly from SP2 to SP3 - which you want to do since SP3 contains all of the interim updates since SP2. Some claim - and there is a fix for it (which did not work for me) - that AMD processors, which I use, somehow conflict with SP3. In frustration (I remember it well), I finally said "screw it" (or some other colorful metaphor - as Spock would say) and applied all of the updates to SP2. Then SP3 installed flwlessly. Monk
Foggy No Datcat . . . Sometimes I am guilty of quickly skimming through posts thinking of similar problems that have occurred on my machines and I miss what was said. I will slow down Monk