What the hell is going on?

[Howard]

Something fishy has been going on here since I installed SP2.

I installed it a couple of days ago with no aparent problems until I tried to install the latest nForce drivers. Then all hell broke loose.

After installing the IDE drivers there was a flash (, a BANG and a lotta smoke! Ok so I'm exagerating ) on the screen and then it went off, "out of sync". 'Whisky Tango Foxtrot?' I thought.

Reset button was promptly depressed.

Upon booting XP I see the following message:

nvatabus.sys is missing or corrupt. You can try to restore it by doing a repair install.

Bollocks, bugger and blast.

I was informed that it might be because I was overclocked. So back down to 2400+ speeds and it boots fine. However the windows loading screen:

Doesn't say Windows XP Professional, just "Windows XP" and the copyright in the bottom left doesn't say "Copyright © 2001 Microsoft Corporation" just "Copyright © Microsoft Corporation".

I was a bit bemused, but let it boot. To the login screen. I entered my password and it took bloody ages to get to the desktop, load the icons and all my other startup programs. SOmething VERY fishy is/was going on.

There's also this:



Is this all something to do with SP2 being installed, or has something arsed over my operating system?

I system restored yesterday back to pre-SP2 (after the fiasco with Nvidia's drivers) and then re-installed SP2.

Can't honestly remember if this stuff was happening right after I did that, but I turn on this morning and it is.

Bottom line is, what's going on? Is this normal SP2 behaviour or is my computer not playing fair?


AND WHY THE HELL DID THEY MOVE THAT DEVICE MANAGER BUTTON

[Steve]

SP2 does remove some things from the boot up screen so don't worry about that. As for the crashing and errors... I dunno.

[3dcandy]

The same boot-up screen for ALL versions of XP now....guess Microsoft were lazy!

[Kezzer]

Yup SP2's bootup screen no long says "Home" or "Professional" it just simply says "Windows XP".

Also, what order did you install everything in? Typically, i hope, that you installed the chipset (nVidia) drivers first followed by everything else.

[Howard]

I was told about the new Nvidias after I installed SP2 Oh well