Re: Sys IPLs in mid of 2005 upd/loops

From: Ed Rich [MSFT] (edrich_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:56:28 -0800

Since you have and 873, you've likely had it for a while. I would suggest
that you take it to a ventilated area and buy a can compresses air for PC's.
I'll bet you find a lot of dust. Also you should reseat the memory in the
system.

Did you follow all the steps listed at the HP site which were supposed to be
performed *before* you upgrade? 

-- 
Ed Rich [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Andy" <Andy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:D61C8770-3967-4D18-9431-9FD7324244B2@microsoft.com...
>I have an HP 873n media center.   I just received the media center 2005
> update for this and when attempting to install it gets to the middle in 
> the
> instaling devices section and then the system IPLs!   The HP Invent 
> startup
> screen occurrs and then the setup tries to recover (I get a screen which 
> say
> setup is recovering)  It goes back to setup and starts at 39 minutes
> remaining, goes onto install devices and then IPLs again.   This went on 5
> times until I pulled the power cord after it ipl'd the 5 times.
>
> At that point I attempted to remove the video and audio cards (thinking
> something connected with these devices was causing the problem but hte 
> same
> problem occurred.
>
> When writing to HP support they stated to do  a recovery install which I
> guess means lose everything.  YUK!
>
> Is there any way to get past this or has anyone seen this before?
>
> Also is there any way to bring up just a shell to copy and recover what I 
> can?
>
> One other bit of infromation.   One mistake I know I made was letting the
> system upgrade files from the internet during the first part of the
> installation.  (I picked the recommended option-but the HO instructions 
> say
> to click "no")
>
> Some more info.   I was running the 2004 version of media center and had
> auto updates turned on.  Also have XP SP2.   Norton System works was also 
> on
> the system along with a myriad of files like MS Office Student Edition, 
> Print
> Shop, Quicken, AOL, Yahoo Messenger, Flight Sim, Hallmark cardmaker, etc.
> All pretty standard stuff.
>
>
> Man this has taught me a lesson.   If I ever get this back up I'm signing 
> up
> for an online backupservice and backing up everything!!!
>
>
>

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