RE: System instability after updates, but possibly present before.

From: goldy (goldy_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 02:45:01 -0800

andrew e, the same exact thing happened to me. i installed spk2 from the cd &
everything went through smooth as silk for about a month or so until i saw in
my system tray there were updates to install, soooo, of course trusting
microsoft i installed them. what a nightmare!!!. it kept going to restart
over & over & over. it wouldn't start in safe mode or go to last good
configuration, after gateway had me try that i had no choice but to reinstall
my operating system. i lost my photos & what not. this happened about a week
or so ago. i don't understand how microsoft can send you updates to install
only to render your computer useless. but yet in this forum i go to people
said they did the updates & everything was a ok. i wonder what happened to
us???. just to let you know your not alone. not that that's any comfort.
happy holidays. btw, does anyone have any answers to this. tia goldy

"Andrew E." wrote:

> Try after SP2,go to run,type:cmd In cmd type:CHKDSK C: /F Agree to restart,
> then type:EXIT Restart computer.After the updates are installed,on reboot,
> boot to xp cd,select,recovery,press enter for password,then type:CHKDSK C: /p
> When its thru,press the up arrow,then enter,repeat,this runs CHKDSK 3 X,then
> type:EXIT Remove xp cd,let xp restart.
>
> "Erik" wrote:
>
> > Just last week I downloaded and installed the three first updates presented
> > to me after SP2, everything had run smoothly until then. However, the
> > customary restart would not load windows and instead would go to a blue
> > screen displaying "Fatal System Error" just after the screen that says
> > Windows XP and has the 3 green vertical bars going across a loading bar over
> > and over. After much deliberation on what to do I decided the best idea was
> > to reinstall the OS. After several hours of updating and reupdating thinking
> > I had fixed the problem I finally arrived to the three that caused a problem
> > last time. Once again a problem arose after/during the restart only this
> > time the system proceeded to just restart over and over again before arriving
> > to the log on page. I am currently on the third reinstallation of Windows
> > XP. Someone please help me!!! After the second OS reinstallation and after
> > the third as well (but before I have time to update to service pack2) a
> > windows pop up has told me that I am missing
> > C:\WINDOWS\servicepackfiles\i386/controls.man I have no idea if this has to
> > do with anything because the problem still does not arrise until after the
> > installation of the first few updates after SP2. Any and all help would be
> > appreciated very much, because much of my life is located on this hard drive
> > and I would hate to have to reformat.