Help Before I Install Service Pack 2?

Hi;
I installed SP 2 last year and had a lot of problems with it any finally removed it from my pc. Now I get this message saying that SP 1 will no longer be supported and I need to install SP 2 but it recommends I back up my system before doing so. There is no back up on my all programs list under system tools so I need to know how to do that and anything else I should know before I install SP 2 such as updating certain programs etc. Thanks, Chris

 

The best way & the only way, IMO is to start off with a fresh install of XP

You said you had problems before, probably because it was installed on a dirty OS!
Do you think this time will be different?

Ive installed SP2 Dozens of times, Never had one single problem, All were done on fresh clean installs of XP

 

What he said ^^^^^^^^^ No problems. ed

 

I've installed sp2 dozens of times with no problems, after I know for a fact that no malware was on a machine. Also, that any antivirus program was disabled.

Malware infected machine can/will affect a sp2 install. Also, occasionally, antivirus programs can cause issues.

IMH (tested) O.

Other than that, ignore my post, and use Asus' method.

 

If you still want to perform a back up with XP here's a link for the file and step by step. My PC did not come with it either. http://www.geocities.com/kilian0072002/NTBackup.htm

 

Another thing you may want to consider is to download SP2 in full from MS, weighs in at 266MB, and use nLite to assemble the two and burn a new CD. This way you will only have to do a repair install using the newly made CD and grab the updates subsequent to SP2. All your installed applications and data will remain intact, well I've never lost a byte. Another advantage to this is that you save timeby not having to install them seperately which saves time. Anyways, doing it this way will give you a 'clean install' everytime, you just have to get the updates again!

 

Would you be willing to walk me thru this procedure? I really don't want to deal with the types of problems I had last time! .........Chris

 

Sure, be glad to but it's not really that hard.

Things that you absolutely need:
CD burner
Burning software like Nero that is capable of burning in an ISO format.
nLite 1.0.1 downloaded from Major Geeks and installed.
Your XP CD
SP2 downloaded from Microsoft

Check out Nuhi's guide here. It's an excellent tutorial with screenshots, much better than I could do or have time for. If you get stuck, ask away.

Acouple of notes: If you see the CD Wizard pop in, just cancel it. Also create two folders in C: like XP and SP2 before you start and point to them when needed.

 

I didn't get a single XP CD with my pc. But I have a set of 8 system recovery CD's that HP sent me when I had to re-install XP last year. How do I know which one to use?

 

Sorry, I have no idea but someone else hopefully knows.

 

Take a closer look at the CD's. They should be labeled between Recovery and Applications. Your OS is probably on the 1st one or 2 CD's. The rest are mostlikely all the pre-loaded software and trial crap.

 

I agree with ASUS. Do it on a fresh install of XP.I just went through the very same with my son's PC and it worked fine on a clean install.

 

Ok, I know some of you told me to install SP2 with a new XP install but I don't have an XP CD so I went to the Malware forum and followed the instructions on the sticky and made sure everything was up to date then installed SP2. Now my computer is freezing up. Can anyone tell me how to figure out what the problem is?

 

I do have an intel celeron processor but how do I know if I have the one that is causing the problem? Don't want to d/l something that will make this worse.

 

OK, this is what it shows....So now what?
CPU Type Intel Celeron-S, 1400 MHz (14 x 100)

 

More info on: KB885626...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885626

 

I read the info on the ms site for this fix and it doesn't really sound like the problem I'm having. It says the computer hangs when you try to re-start to finish install of sp2, but install was done 2 weeks ago, and several programs are freezing. Biggest problem occurred when I tried to copy pictures & videos from CD to hard drive the other day. Web pages are freezing and programs are slow to open, etc. The only hotfix I found in add/remove programs was "microsoft.net framework 1.1 KB886903". There were about 20-30 of them before I installed sp2. Also microsoft.net framework 2.0.

 

Don't know what prescott platform is, and what patch? What exactly do I need to look for on the ms site? Don't mean to sound dumb, but can you be more specific? Thanx...

 

Still having problems, can anyone help me figure this out?

 

Application only shows one event 4609 0n 8/26 and lots of warnings. System shows event 7000 on 8/26 and 9, 11 on 8/22. Don't know how far back you want me to check.

 

Details say...ZPMODEMSYSNTDRVNT failed to load because driver is invalid. There was only one 7000. The rest are mostly 11 under the cdrom, because I'm having problems with my dvd drive. But that's a seperate issue. Right now the main issue is pages taking too long to load and programs freezing up. Anything else I can check?

 

Did a search for IDesk...results say no.

 

Did that whole thing before I started posting. Should I try it again? or just run adaware & spybot? What do you think?

 

ran the ewido scan and it found several tracking cookies and I item that said Adware.coupons in C:\windows\cpbrkpie.ocx. It deleted the cookies and quarantined the adware. It didn't find anything serious though. Shut down and restart is taking a very long time now.

 

Th key is there. Didn't find idemlog.exe.

 

Should I switch this thread to the malware section so someone can look at my HJT log? It has 13 - 023 entries and I don't want to delete the wrong things. Not sure what an NT service is but I'm running win xp home, not win nt. Does this matter?
Ran the Pest Patrol and found the zpmodem thing like this... "Backdoor.win32.agent.rw" The key under this entry is where I saw the zpmodem thing. But the Pest Patrol program wouldn't do anything with it unless I bought the program. Will any of my other spyware programs kill it?

 

I printed the NEW read and run. Will post in Malware when done. Thanks Tim for all your help. Really thought this was an SP2 issue. Guess I was wrong. Oh well, that's twice now.

 

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Edit: Snipped email address

 

how do I edit? don't see an option

 

thanks!!!

 

Cool, thanx