Re: SP1 Help!

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From: Nathan McNulty (525676_at_betaweb.com)
Date: 07/07/04


Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:33:25 -0700

Depending on your machine, Service Packs can take quite a while to
install. It took a good 20 minutes to install Service Pack 2 on my OCed
machine running at 3.8 GHz with overhaul memory and I have tweaked out
my system. It really will take a while. Let it go, but if it takes over
an hour, then it is frozen. You can always try installing in Safe Mode.
Press F8 before Windows loads when you reboot your computer and try
installing it there. Note: You will need to have the service pack saved
on your computer as you won't have internet access in Safe Mode ;)

Nathan McNulty

L wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Hoping someone can help me. I just downloaded the SP1
> pack and its installing but it seems to be stuck, for the
> last 20 minutes its been saying 'Finishing installation'
> then on the details panel it says running processes after
> install. But the bar doesn't seem to be moving. Is there
> a way to stop or cancel this somehow and try again.
>
> Thanks!
>
> L



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