Re: Repair gone bad

MadDog wrote:
My computer has been booting very slow lately (checked for viruses, malware, spyware and everything clean) - so I decide to do a repair installation of Windows XP.

Here's the problems I'm having:

1) After the repair, the Windows Security Center says my anti-virus is turned off. It isn't.

2) I can't do a Windows update, because I get a 0x080070005 error when installing Windows Installer 3.1.

3) My graphics card isn't being recognized, either by Windows or the manufacturer's driver program. No graphics card or monitor shows up in device manager.


So, should I now do a clean install. I can still read the drive, so getting whatever data I need off the disk shouldn't be a problem.


MD


Installed Windows XP SP2 since reinstalling the OS (if CD wasn't already SP2)?

Reinstalled anti-virus since reinstalling Windows XP SP2?

Reinstalled Graphics card driver since reinstalling Windows XP SP2?
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