SP2 Hardware Problems

My Pre service pack 2 installation was a fresh install with SP1 + all pre
SP2 updates. I also installed Office 2003 AutoCAD 2005 and a couple of HP
printers. We use Norton Ghost so the install was syspreped and installed on
a different PC before installing SP2.
Hardware is a Dell 4500 with NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 and Intel Pro 100M Nic
The rest is basic setup.

After installing SP2 I get hundreds of the little installing hardware icons
in the system tray all along the bottom of the screen. Eventually they all
disappear like the system finished installing all of the hardware. When I
went into the device manager I saw 4 devices under the ?Other devices. Since
everything was installed as far as I could tell I removed all 4 of them and
rebooted. I still get the hundreds of installing hardware icons but the 4 ?
devices never showed up again.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks in advance.

Steve

Hello,

You can get more information about hardware and software compatibility with
SP 2 from this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...h;ln;xpsp2swhw

Greig [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Steve Roberts" <> wrote in message
news:...
> My Pre service pack 2 installation was a fresh install with SP1 + all pre
> SP2 updates. I also installed Office 2003 AutoCAD 2005 and a couple of HP
> printers. We use Norton Ghost so the install was syspreped and installed
on
> a different PC before installing SP2.
> Hardware is a Dell 4500 with NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 and Intel Pro 100M
Nic
> The rest is basic setup.
>
> After installing SP2 I get hundreds of the little installing hardware
icons
> in the system tray all along the bottom of the screen. Eventually they all
> disappear like the system finished installing all of the hardware. When I
> went into the device manager I saw 4 devices under the ?Other devices.
Since
> everything was installed as far as I could tell I removed all 4 of them
and
> rebooted. I still get the hundreds of installing hardware icons but the 4
?
> devices never showed up again.
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Steve
>
>