Re: Bad hardware
- From: Parker Race <parker.race@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 06:08:03 -0700 (PDT)
On May 27, 8:33 am, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Parker Race" <parker.r...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The family XP SP2 machine started acting strangely last week. The
screen would go black and then refresh occasionally. The OE Express
started crashing, then IE7. It got so bad with spontaneous reboots
that I downloaded and attempted to install SP3, that failed with a
message that it can't verify Update.inf (are the cryptograhy services
running?, yes they are). So I attempted to a repair with a SP2 CD. It
fails after hardware detection. I have Acronis backups on a second
drive so I booted off an Acronis boot cd, verfication of the archive
passes but any attempt to restore fails immediately. The system drive
doesn't appear to be trashed. I can browse it looking for archives.
I'm thinking I have a hardware issue. This is a white box built by
myself using quality components. What are good tools to test the
hardware, Memtest?
It is a common misconception that the installation of a Service
Pack will repair pre-existing problems. It does no such thing.
The purpose of a service pack is address issues that became
known after the initial release of the software. If a problem happens
to get fixed then this is pure luck.
Since you think you have a hardware problem, a hardware
newsgroup would be a good place to ask your question.
Well if the problem is a corrupted system file that is replaced by the
service pack I suspect it could fix the problem.
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