Re: XP Service Pack Two - a screw up!

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From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:28:13 -0500

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:12:15 -0400, "francis gérard"
<spam@spamcop.net> wrote:

>
>"CS" <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:fs0qi01nnjlf2eks2vfv2jcijbnugmqitn@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:39:49 -0700, "Jim"
>> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I installed SP 2 on a newer machine with an Athlon AMD 64
>>>bit chip.
>>>
>>>On rebooting I could only go to safe mode.
>>>
>>>I uninstalled SP 2 and still had the same problem.
>>>
>>>Happily, at least, system restore works.
>>>
>>>SP 2 has got to be one of the worse viruses out there.
>>>
>>>When will Microsoft stop using its whole customer base as
>>>beta testers?
>>
>> The SP2 you downloaded is not for the 64bit CPUs. Not the Intel nor
>> the AMD. Perhaps if you had bothered to read the instructions prior
>> to installing the service pack, you would have known that.
>
>afaik, the 64bit edition of XP is only available as a preview, not generally
>available yet. and i also doubt that that SP2 (x86 32bit) would even
>install on a 64bit version of Windows without generating an error the moment
>the service pack updater was launched. obviously SP2 was coded to detect
>that it's being installed on the correct version of Windows, and quit if
>not.
>
>i think we've been duped and trolled by CS

Francis:

I'm not the troll...<g> The above was my reply to the original poster
who apparently is the troll.

Regards.

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