automatic update to service pak 2

2006-05-28 20:19:59 10:19:59 Error IUENGINE Querying software
update catalog from
https://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.c...etmanifest.asp (Error
0x800401E4: Invalid syntax)
2006-05-28 20:19:59 10:19:59 Error IUENGINE Finding matching
driver for ROOT\DMIO\0000 (Error 0x800401E4: Invalid syntax)

Why is windows update downloading faulty updates that are making my pc
unstable? why when installing SP2, is it reporting error messages about
catalogues and then rollsback? why is there now a hotfix for this catalogue
problem? (does this mean that microsoft released a faulty version of sp2 and
now they are trying to fix it through hotfixes?)?

this is really unacceptable.




"jobo" wrote:

> 2006-05-28 20:19:59 10:19:59 Error IUENGINE Querying software
> update catalog from
> https://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.c...etmanifest.asp (Error
> 0x800401E4: Invalid syntax)
> 2006-05-28 20:19:59 10:19:59 Error IUENGINE Finding matching
> driver for ROOT\DMIO\0000 (Error 0x800401E4: Invalid syntax)

jobo <> wrote:

> Why is windows update downloading faulty updates that are making my pc
> unstable?

Please explain what you mean by this. Give specific examples.

> why when installing SP2, is it reporting error messages
> about catalogues and then rollsback?

Sorry, without some details it is difficult to understand what you mean.
Can you quote the exact texts of the error messages and any error numbers?

> why is there now a hotfix for
> this catalogue problem? (does this mean that microsoft released a
> faulty version of sp2 and now they are trying to fix it through
> hotfixes?)?

What hotfix? Can you give the KB number of the hotfix that you are
referring to?

--
Robin Walker [MVP Networking]

"jobo" <> wrote in message
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> 2006-05-28 20:19:59 10:19:59 Error IUENGINE Querying software
> update catalog from
> https://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.c...etmanifest.asp (Error
> 0x800401E4: Invalid syntax)
> 2006-05-28 20:19:59 10:19:59 Error IUENGINE Finding matching
> driver for ROOT\DMIO\0000 (Error 0x800401E4: Invalid syntax)


Service Pack 2 for which product?
If it's supposed to be XP and this is your latest log (seems likely)
you wouldn't be able to do it until you get the necessary updates
to use WUv5 (at least) or WUv6.

You can't use WUv4 to update XP to XPsp2.
It's possible that that is all that this error code is telling you.

At one time I thought KB842773 was documented to be a pre-req
for installing XPsp2 over the web. However, it looks as if there could
be some superseding information or perhaps most people have either
already installed it directly either from CD or the equivalent download.
The problem, as I recall, is that you need to be sure that you have
BITS 2.0 capability. This is included in XPsp2 but apparently needed
if it is being installed over the web, e.g. via Automatic Updates.


In any case try checking on the version of BITS that you have.
You can use the file list in this article to do that

<title>An update is available for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 for Windows XP</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842309/en-us


or if you have the XP Support Tools installed
(or otherwise have a copy of bitsadmin.exe)
you might be able to determine it (from a cmd window)
with this command:

bitsadmin /util /version /verbose


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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