MisterURL
Fri May 09 15:29:01 PDT 2008
Thanks for the response, both of you. It is a single boot failure, that is,
it takes me to the boot menu where I can boot into SAFE mode OK. I will
change the "auto restart on failure" and run it again. I believe if I can see
what the error is, I can find help here to settle it. I DO have an AMD CPU,
so that might be the problem, although I have run hundreds of MS updates
before and have never had this happen.
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
> Continual reboots or can only boot into Safe Mode after installing WinXP
> SP3?
>
> Workarounds:
>
> 1. Boot into Safe Mode and rename INTELPMM.SYS to INTELPMM.OLD.
>
> 2. After booting into Safe Mode:
>
> Start | Run | (copy/paste) sc config intelppm start= disabled | OK | Reboot
> into normal (Windows) mode.
>
> Other references include:
>
> â?¢
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?p=187790#p187790
>
> â?¢
>
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/05/08/does-your-amd-based-computer-boot-after-installing-xp-sp3.aspx
>
> â?¢
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/09/windows_xp_sp3_reboots_crashes/
>
> â?¢ You receive a â??Stop 0x0000007Eâ?? error message after you upgrade to Windows
> XP Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 on a non-Intel-processor-based computer
> (Revised 06 May-08)
>
http://support.microsoft.com:80/kb/888372
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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>
> MisterURL wrote:
> > I am getting a BSOD failure at boot time after installing XP SP3. I have
> > tried it several times. I have followed the "troubleshooting sp3 failure"
> > document (starting BITS, renaming the download folder to download.old,
> > etc.)
> > with no change. My OS is Windows XP MCE2005.
> >
> > My biggest problem is I can't tell what the failure is - the screen
> > flashes
> > the error message for about 25 milliseconds and then goes blank and
> > reboots.
> > I have tried to pause and catch it with no success. There must be a log
> > where can I find what the failure is?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>