XP SP2 Upgrade caused a crash

From: Steven L. Haas (slhaas99_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:15:40 -0700

Well, first of all, I'd like to thank you for the insight
and wisdom that you shared with me here. I don't get why
you took the time out of your day to create that
message. I may be a moron, but you are a hateful person
with too much free time, most likely due to lack of
having a life of any substance. Now, with that said, I'd
like to defend myself a little. There were absolutely NO
warnings of any sort that told me to close any programs
at all. In fact, the download/install was said to take
appx. 50 min., so I assumed I had time to work with while
the download occured. Next, there weren't any sort of
errors during this process, and when it was done it ASKED
me if I'd like to reboot or contine workin anf reboot
when I was ready. Thus, I chos to finish my work (and
you were most certainly right... I was whacking off and
looking at porn). Before I got done, the computer
froze. Now, I've heard of XP having problems like this
when you do a hard restart ANY time... not just during a
update. In fact, it is known to be more problematic in
this way than any other version of the OS. Lastly, I
never once complained about the SP update. I admitted
what I did in full, and asked if there was a known issue
or a way to fix what I did. I know I wasn't the smartest
in my choice of actions here, but it can't be a unique
situation, and I disclosed all that happened so I can get
the most detailed insight possible as to fixing the
problem without losing all of my data. If anyone ELSE
out there would like to offer any suggestions, I will
gladly heed them and be very thankful. If YOU would like
to ridicule me some more... please do it to yourself as
to not clog up this message board with even more wasteful
posts than yours and this one.
>-----Original Message-----
>So let me get this straight. First you let windows
>install a major update and you did not bother to shut
dowm
>all apps. Second while it was installing you decided,
hey
>this would be a great time to go on the internet and do
>some eBaying or look at porn or whatever. Then just to
>make sure the update install correctly you thought hey
>I'll ignore all of the requests to reboot. Finally, now
>you are in a MS newsgroup complaining about the update.
>
>What are you really that dense? Do you drive your car
>with the check ehgine light on? or drive it while the
>mechanic is in the middle of an oil change? I think not.
>
>As far as I am concern you are a MORON and you got what
>you deserve and now you can have fun doing a clean
>install. Or slipstream a XP cd and do a repair
install.
>Either way don't come back until you sit in cornor for a
>timeout.
>
>CT
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I turned on my computer today, and noticed there was an
>>update ready to install. It was the SP2 update, and I
>>ran it in the background while I worked. About 30 min
>>later it told me that I was ready to reboot, but I
chose
>>to wait while I finished some work. Every few minutes
I
>>was asked if I wanted to restart, and I'd choose not
to.
>>I was browsing the internet, and opened a new window
when
>>everything went bad. Nothing loaded, and when I tried
to
>>close the page, it asked if I wanted to close it even
>>though the page was busy. I'd choose yes and nothing
>>would happen. When I hit CTRL ALT DEL to access the
task
>>manager, nothing happened. When I went to shut down or
>>restart, nothing happened. I reset the computer
>>manually, and now, when I try to boot up I have
>>problems. It loads normally to the screen where it
says
>>Windows XP and a progress bar in the center of the
screen
>>moves along. When it progresses to the end, and the
next
>>window should pop up asking me to log in, the monitor
>>instead goes to power saving mode, the hard drive
reboots
>>and I'm stuck in a vicious cycle of rebooting
>>automatically to that point and no further. When I try
>>to hold down the f11 key or f12 key, nothing happens.
>>I'm at my wits end, and extremely upset at the premise
of
>>losing all of my data because of an update locking up
my
>>computer. The only function I was performing at the
time
>>besides the update was to open up one yahoo window in
IE
>>to a new one displaying a yahoo sub-catagory.
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions or know what is going
on
>>here??
>>.
>>
>.
>

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