Sorry, I missed this the first time. It's true you must install SP2 before you can get up to SP3, so you don't have a choice; you must get SP2 in there. What's unusual is that usually in a clean install there shouldn't be any hangs. You aren't trying to install SP2/SP3 *after* you've installed some apps, are you?
I had a NIC go bad on a mobo once years ago. other than that, this stuff just doesn't fail. Are you guys with the constant failures just buying cheap mobos? No wait, I buy a lot of cheap mobos for our video workstations, and none of those have failed either. Knock on wood, thanks to you guys. Can you tell us just how many and what type of failures you've had on your mobos that required you to have 5 PCI slots??? On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Christopher Range <lcms0...@comcast.net> wrote: > Tony, I mentioned, that my computer would hang after the XP Pro logo screen, > following the upgrade to XP SP2, regardless of going by CD or, by download > from Microsoft's website and, installed. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
