Re: Cannot uninstall windows XP service pack 2

Hi,

1) A celeron is an Intel processor, not an AMD. Your system uses an AMD
Athlon (thunderbird series).

2) The issues with SP2 were not with the celeron line, but rather with Intel
Prescott's.

3) BIOS update for your model:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?dlc=en&lc=en&product=57677&lang=en&cc=us&docname=c00007682

4) "Access denied" is usually indicitive of an ownership problem, see:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"ddh0905" <ddh0905@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3793E4D5-9BCB-4212-994D-AD68F450B57C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On 5/6/05 I reconnected my computer to the internet after being
> disconnected
> from it for the past several months. I have an HP Pavillion 876XL with an
> AMD Celeron processor at 1200 mHz Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.D. I have
> multiple boot sectors including Windows ME which came with this computer,
> Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional both of which I
> purchased later.
>
> I have had my computer setup to boot to Windows XP but can choose to boot
> in
> Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Recovery Console also.
>
> I realized after I did the Windows "Automatic Update", which I had done
> several times before without problems, that there were problems with the
> Celeron processors and Windows XP SP2.
>
> I have tried to use the $NTservicepackuninstall$ utility in Recovery
> Console
> but get an "access denied" message when running the batch spuninst.txt
> utility. I have also tried to uninstall by booting up windows 2000 but
> cannot find the winxpsp2 folder described in the instructions. I have
> also
> tried to look for a BIOS update that I can obtain but have not been able
> to
> locate this so far. I won't have access to my original Windows XP
> Professional Disk for another week since I am away from my home on
> business.
>
> Can you offer any suggestions?
> --
> ddh0905


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