Stildawn

Hello All.

My mate computer has Windows XP Pro installed,

For ages he ran it without doing the automatic updates from windows etc, but then AVG said that he had to install AVG 8 but that required SP2.

So he went to windows update and did the usual steps to update. Everything was installing fine, until he did update to SP3.....

Then things went wrong, firstly when you turn the computer on it goes "updates available for download" in the system tray, but when you click to download and install, it comes back a bit later saying "unable to install updates"

This happens everytime you try, also if you go to the windows update website and try from there the same thing happens??

Further more, he's graphics card driver was updating but never completed due to the above, and now in display properties under "advanced" is says "display = (default monitor) on" instead of "plug n play" or anything, I have never seen "(default monitor) on" before, even when you do a fresh install, it still says "plug n play".

Now we have downloaded the driver from ATI (Radeaon 9600) and when you go to install that it comes up with "cannot find required software/hardware" im thinking this directly relates to the "(default monitor) on" thing.

Anyway.... Any ideas on what has happened?

Cheers

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PC eye

Right off the latest updates from ATI are not for use on an older AGP card like the 9600. A 3rd party site like guru3d.com or omegadrivers.net usually still see some of the old catalyst updates like the Cat. 5.11-5.13 still onhand. The entire 9xxx Radeon line is no longer supported by ATI/AMD.

The one thing to try now would going into the add/remove programs and check the show all updates option and manually remove some of those or use the system restore feature to go back before the update attempt was made. Once those are off you can still download SP2 as a separate item to see that go on first before another attempt with SP3 is made.

The two pages for the 266mb downloadable SP2 are seen at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en with an alternate at http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...-SP2-RTM.shtml

SP3 final is also available at softpedia as a 316mb download. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/...s-XP-SP3.shtml

Once SP2 is on and running good retry the update site and use the express not custom option since the older drivers for the video card have to be found at one of the two 3rd party sites mentioned earlier. Anything newer will cause problems being for the newer models cards that followed the 9xxx line.

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Stildawn

Ok cool, cheers thanks for the fast reply lol, Ill try that tonight when I get home. And let you know how I get on.

Cheers

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PC eye

I think something too new for the hardwares went on and is now causing the problem like the latest Catalyst updates would be for the X1xxx and even the current 2xxx series cards still supported. If Windows was just reinstalled the installer 3.1 tool from MS has to go on first once Windows is activated to then be followed by the load of updates.

But try the reversal with a restore point to save time if you have a valid restore point available. Once back at where you started go for SP2 first to see that on and working since that's a requirement at this point for just about anything. If the system is an HP or Dell prebuild SP3 can see problems at times if the manufacturer is providing a one for all image. The separate install of SP3 is still optional while that supposedly sees some 1,000 fixes needed for XP.

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whittier

If you are still having problems, Microsoft is providing free technical support for SP3 installation and compatibility issues:

http://www.iaps.com/blog/2008/05/fre...tallation.html

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Stildawn

Ok guys update.

Now went to the system restore lol although sadly in only keeps a couple of days and monday was the earliest, and thats when we did the update. So I went to add remove programs and uninstalled SP3

Now all hell broke loose.... lol.

Um when it restarted it loaded up to desktop then in the system tray it came up with the "installing new hardware" thing like usual when theres a hardware change, then...... BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!! lol.

It always BSOD after about a minute or two on desktop, now I ran it in safe mode then it said the usual "windows finished installing new hardware. please restart" which I did and that got us back to square one. Lol its running but no graphics etc as above.

So I tried the old ATI drivers as you said, lol get this when it went to install it said "setup was unable to complete install, try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver before running setup"

Tried findind "plug n play" driver, but even that didnt work.

Lol anymore ideas??? Haha im nearing the full reformatt lol.

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Yep - everything's good, mate

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