Calling all MVP's...Help! (Was SP2 Update: I Surrender!)

Calling all MVP's...Help!

I followed Jupiter's advice and loaded a spare 20 gb drive with Win XP home
and downloaded & installed SP2. Everything fine.

Next Day. Felt brave and somewhat confident. Loaded SP2 on main drive. Clean
install no problems. All Security Center activated, firewall up, updates on
& the system was seeing Computer Associates ezAntiVirus, my current av
program.

Next day, system starts showing signs of instability....programs skitterish,
locking up & not responding

-Then Security Center says it is unavailable because it was 'stopped'. I
know I didn't stop it. Following the directions to restart Security Center
did not prod it to start.

-Here come my 'lil' friends...error messages.

Dialog box Windows Product Activation. A problem is preventing Windows from
accurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code:0x800703e6.
(Note. The next time I saw this box the Error Code was: 0x900700f.)

Dialog box Windows Registry Recovery. One of the files containing the
system's registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate
copy. The recovery was successful.

Next Windows would not start. Tried all 3 Users. Had to reboot using last
known good config.

I'm getting that bad feeling that had me swearing off SP2 in the first
place.

Any help appreciated.

Please reply to your original thread ("SP2 Update: I Surrender!"), Bob.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Bob Swieciki wrote:
> Calling all MVP's...Help!
>
> I followed Jupiter's advice and loaded a spare 20 gb drive with Win XP
> home and downloaded & installed SP2. Everything fine.
>
> Next Day. Felt brave and somewhat confident. Loaded SP2 on main drive.
> Clean install no problems. All Security Center activated, firewall up,
> updates on & the system was seeing Computer Associates ezAntiVirus, my
> current av program.
>
> Next day, system starts showing signs of instability....programs
> skitterish, locking up & not responding
>
> -Then Security Center says it is unavailable because it was 'stopped'. I
> know I didn't stop it. Following the directions to restart Security Center
> did not prod it to start.
>
> -Here come my 'lil' friends...error messages.
>
> Dialog box Windows Product Activation. A problem is preventing Windows
> from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error
> Code:0x800703e6. (Note. The next time I saw this box the Error Code was:
> 0x900700f.)
> Dialog box Windows Registry Recovery. One of the files containing the
> system's registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate
> copy. The recovery was successful.
>
> Next Windows would not start. Tried all 3 Users. Had to reboot using last
> known good config.
>
> I'm getting that bad feeling that had me swearing off SP2 in the first
> place.
>
> Any help appreciated.

I did PA Bear, the previous day, but no one responded. I assumed that all
those who had responded to the original post had killed off the thread.
Plus, I'm stymied.


"PA Bear" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Please reply to your original thread ("SP2 Update: I Surrender!"), Bob.
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
>
> Bob Swieciki wrote:
>> Calling all MVP's...Help!
>>
>> I followed Jupiter's advice and loaded a spare 20 gb drive with Win XP
>> home and downloaded & installed SP2. Everything fine.
>>
>> Next Day. Felt brave and somewhat confident. Loaded SP2 on main drive.
>> Clean install no problems. All Security Center activated, firewall up,
>> updates on & the system was seeing Computer Associates ezAntiVirus, my
>> current av program.
>>
>> Next day, system starts showing signs of instability....programs
>> skitterish, locking up & not responding
>>
>> -Then Security Center says it is unavailable because it was 'stopped'. I
>> know I didn't stop it. Following the directions to restart Security
>> Center
>> did not prod it to start.
>>
>> -Here come my 'lil' friends...error messages.
>>
>> Dialog box Windows Product Activation. A problem is preventing Windows
>> from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error
>> Code:0x800703e6. (Note. The next time I saw this box the Error Code was:
>> 0x900700f.)
>> Dialog box Windows Registry Recovery. One of the files containing the
>> system's registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate
>> copy. The recovery was successful.
>>
>> Next Windows would not start. Tried all 3 Users. Had to reboot using last
>> known good config.
>>
>> I'm getting that bad feeling that had me swearing off SP2 in the first
>> place.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>