SP 2 start up problems

I installed SP 2 on my Dell Inspirion 2500 o/s win XP.
Since installation, my computer does not want to start
up. I get the win XP screen and all the normal sounds -
then the "blue screen of death". Repeated unplugging and
restarting was finally successful - there were errors on
disc C that the system corrected. I ran a defrag. Twice
after that there were no start up problems. Then the
problem recurred. The cntrl/alt/delete procedure has
successfully started up the computer twice. I am
reluctant to turn the computer off until I am sure it will
restart. where to go from here?

Judith;
Check for damaged/missing system files:
Start/Run
Type "sfc /scannow" ENTER
Follow prompts and have Windows XP CD available.

Get the latest Windows XP drivers for your hardware.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Judith Olson" <> wrote in message
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>I installed SP 2 on my Dell Inspirion 2500 o/s win XP.
> Since installation, my computer does not want to start
> up. I get the win XP screen and all the normal sounds -
> then the "blue screen of death". Repeated unplugging and
> restarting was finally successful - there were errors on
> disc C that the system corrected. I ran a defrag. Twice
> after that there were no start up problems. Then the
> problem recurred. The cntrl/alt/delete procedure has
> successfully started up the computer twice. I am
> reluctant to turn the computer off until I am sure it will
> restart. where to go from here?

I have not been able to run scan disk. I have tried
sfc/scannow, scandisk.exe, with and without c:\ prefix and
some other variations. How else can I try to run scandisk
on win XP? Hardware drivers checked and are the latest.
>-----Original Message-----
>Judith;
>Check for damaged/missing system files:
>Start/Run
>Type "sfc /scannow" ENTER
>Follow prompts and have Windows XP CD available.
>
>Get the latest Windows XP drivers for your hardware.
>
>--
>Jupiter Jones [MVP]
>http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>
>
>"Judith Olson" <>
wrote in message
>news:20dd01c4ac83$7ac54b60$...
>>I installed SP 2 on my Dell Inspirion 2500 o/s win XP.
>> Since installation, my computer does not want to start
>> up. I get the win XP screen and all the normal sounds -
>> then the "blue screen of death". Repeated unplugging
and
>> restarting was finally successful - there were errors on
>> disc C that the system corrected. I ran a defrag.
Twice
>> after that there were no start up problems. Then the
>> problem recurred. The cntrl/alt/delete procedure has
>> successfully started up the computer twice. I am
>> reluctant to turn the computer off until I am sure it
will
>> restart. where to go from here?
>
>
>.
>

Judith;
Are you trying it exactly how I stated in my last post?
Click Start
Click Run
In the box type "sfc /scannow"
Press ENTER
Follow prompts and have Windows XP CD available.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Judith" <> wrote in message
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>I have not been able to run scan disk. I have tried
> sfc/scannow, scandisk.exe, with and without c:\ prefix and
> some other variations. How else can I try to run scandisk
> on win XP? Hardware drivers checked and are the latest.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Judith;
>>Check for damaged/missing system files:
>>Start/Run
>>Type "sfc /scannow" ENTER
>>Follow prompts and have Windows XP CD available.
>>
>>Get the latest Windows XP drivers for your hardware.
>>
>>--
>>Jupiter Jones [MVP]
>>http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>>
>>
>>"Judith Olson" <>
> wrote in message
>>news:20dd01c4ac83$7ac54b60$...
>>>I installed SP 2 on my Dell Inspirion 2500 o/s win XP.
>>> Since installation, my computer does not want to start
>>> up. I get the win XP screen and all the normal sounds -
>>> then the "blue screen of death". Repeated unplugging
> and
>>> restarting was finally successful - there were errors on
>>> disc C that the system corrected. I ran a defrag.
> Twice
>>> after that there were no start up problems. Then the
>>> problem recurred. The cntrl/alt/delete procedure has
>>> successfully started up the computer twice. I am
>>> reluctant to turn the computer off until I am sure it
> will
>>> restart. where to go from here?
>>
>>
>>.
>>

I installed Sp2 on three of my computers with no problem
whatsoever. BUT on the forth, NO GO, I did everything
right ,I turned off the firewall,antivirus,cleaned out
temps and such, checked for spyware,viruses,etc. No
Problems were found, I installed Sp2 and it seemed to work
fine ,untill I rebooted and all of sudden an error popped
up and said it recovered my registry from a copy or
backup. I clicked OK. the next time I rebooted it said it
found orphan files and it also deleted and replaced corupt
files .It came back on but some programs wound not work.
Every time I started it it would do the same but to
different files. After the fourth reboot it would reboot
no more. It just had a black screen that said I was
missing a file to start. I went back to my SP1 backup that
I saved with drive image and all was well again. no
problems at all, so it has to be a SP2 problem. I also
tried it from a clean install and it messed up again with
the same problems. Whats going on. SP2 is just eating
itself up

I have the same type of problem. Whenever I go to start up I get this screen
that says I have 9seconds to press any key to stop a scan. If I don't press
a key it starts this long process of removing corrupeted files and replacing
orphan files. I get tired of waiting for it to finish and worried that it's
actually damaging my system and shut the whole thing down. When I re-start I
click any key so it won't go through that, but then I get a security alert
saying there are corrupt files in my internet temp file. I'm worried that
I'm going to lose everything. Any suggestions??


"" wrote:

> I installed Sp2 on three of my computers with no problem
> whatsoever. BUT on the forth, NO GO, I did everything
> right ,I turned off the firewall,antivirus,cleaned out
> temps and such, checked for spyware,viruses,etc. No
> Problems were found, I installed Sp2 and it seemed to work
> fine ,untill I rebooted and all of sudden an error popped
> up and said it recovered my registry from a copy or
> backup. I clicked OK. the next time I rebooted it said it
> found orphan files and it also deleted and replaced corupt
> files .It came back on but some programs wound not work.
> Every time I started it it would do the same but to
> different files. After the fourth reboot it would reboot
> no more. It just had a black screen that said I was
> missing a file to start. I went back to my SP1 backup that
> I saved with drive image and all was well again. no
> problems at all, so it has to be a SP2 problem. I also
> tried it from a clean install and it messed up again with
> the same problems. Whats going on. SP2 is just eating
> itself up
>

"PGerking" and "anonymous",

I am sorry you are hitting these issues. If you can go back to the Drive
Image, then please do, and try another version of your copy of Windows XP
Service Pack 2. It is available at the Microsoft Download Center (please
disregard the IT Professionals and Developers portion of this, as it will
run on an individual computer as well: (266 MB)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5-9e368d3cdb5a

If you cannot go back, do not panic. You can try an in-place upgrade of
your XP system by following these directions here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;315341

Warning: You will be taking your system files back to the day of the CD you
use to restore the image. This will mean a number of Windows Updates and
perhaps Service Packs will need to be installed.

Sincerely,

Pat Walters [MSFT]


"PGerking" <> wrote in message
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> I have the same type of problem. Whenever I go to start up I get this
screen
> that says I have 9seconds to press any key to stop a scan. If I don't
press
> a key it starts this long process of removing corrupeted files and
replacing
> orphan files. I get tired of waiting for it to finish and worried that
it's
> actually damaging my system and shut the whole thing down. When I
re-start I
> click any key so it won't go through that, but then I get a security alert
> saying there are corrupt files in my internet temp file. I'm worried that
> I'm going to lose everything. Any suggestions??
>
>
> "" wrote:
>
> > I installed Sp2 on three of my computers with no problem
> > whatsoever. BUT on the forth, NO GO, I did everything
> > right ,I turned off the firewall,antivirus,cleaned out
> > temps and such, checked for spyware,viruses,etc. No
> > Problems were found, I installed Sp2 and it seemed to work
> > fine ,untill I rebooted and all of sudden an error popped
> > up and said it recovered my registry from a copy or
> > backup. I clicked OK. the next time I rebooted it said it
> > found orphan files and it also deleted and replaced corupt
> > files .It came back on but some programs wound not work.
> > Every time I started it it would do the same but to
> > different files. After the fourth reboot it would reboot
> > no more. It just had a black screen that said I was
> > missing a file to start. I went back to my SP1 backup that
> > I saved with drive image and all was well again. no
> > problems at all, so it has to be a SP2 problem. I also
> > tried it from a clean install and it messed up again with
> > the same problems. Whats going on. SP2 is just eating
> > itself up
> >