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    For some perculiar reason, WinXP decided to play a little game yesterday afternoon. That being it was absolutely fine until a restart when it wouldn't boot. At all. It just hung on the screen with the WinXP logo and moving green bar for a long time. Safe mode worked though.
    I tried system restore, booting with all the services/startup items disabled and shouting at it. Nothing worked.

    I then gave up and started anew with a fresh install (no SPs) and installed SP2, Office plus all the updates (only 700+MB of 'em) it said it wanted. All was well.

    Then things took a serious turn today when I installed SP3 (the 70MB job via WindowsUpdate).
    Again we're back at it's silly little game where the darn thing won't boot. Safe mode is fine though.
    So, after uninstalling SP3, I tried again with the 300MB download version. Same thing. No boot. Back into safe mode and off came SP3, again.

    It's not the AMD issue as the CPU is a C2D E6600 and I dare says meddling with the Intel power management file thing could be "interesting" to say the least. Nothing is overclocked.
    The bizarre bit is it did work. Then, presumably because Jupiter was in alignment with a flowerpot or something, it's all gone pear shaped.

    As you can probably imagine, I'm back at SP2 and "making do" but even if I don't put back SP3 back on, an inkling as to which gremlin is playing silly b**gers would be grand! All suggestions listened to!

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    Re: WinXP SP3 issues - possibly?!?!

    Have you tried making a slipstreamed disc with it. it sounds like there is a driver somewhere that is not compatible with sp3 so it might also be woth checking to make sure everything is upto date driver wise
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    Re: WinXP SP3 issues - possibly?!?!

    Not a bad idea! A slipstreamed install might help but if it is a driver issue, won’t I just end up at the same point when the driver (or whatever it may be) at fault gets installed – without having the fallback position of removing SP3 and continuing with SP2?

    As far as I’m aware, all the drivers were (and now, are) up to date.

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    Re: WinXP SP3 issues - possibly?!?!

    im thinking that if sp3 is installed before the drivers i may resolve the issue
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    Re: WinXP SP3 issues - possibly?!?!

    Aha! I see where you're coming from.

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