RE: SP2 is causing STOP: c0000135

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From: Rick (Rick_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:49:08 -0700

Had the same thing happen to me. Followed the steps in
http://www.windowsforumz.com/General-Discussion-stop-c0000135-error-winsrv-problem-service-pack-installation-ftopict151038.html
and was able to recover w/o SP2. Will not retry until I know what's going on!

"Matt (support@ci.dover.nh.us)" wrote:

> Be carefull out there if you're planning to update to Sp2. Make sure to do a
> system backup. I've found quite a few other posts with the same problem. No
> fix other than reinstalling, or running a system recovery.
>
> On boot it goes into a booting loop. It won't boot into safe mode, or last
> known good config. If you tell it not to automatically restart on failure you
> get the error
> Stop: c0000135 {Unable to Locate Component}.
>
> Any quick fixes people have found for this? I would really appreciate saving
> some time and not having to reload the whole system. I think I may just end
> up wiping out the system and resintalling.
>