Re: WinXP reinstall-Ooops!!


"David Maynard" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> pheasant wrote:
>
>> After working around some hardware issues that corrupted WinXP to the
>> point of not booting, put the CD in the drive, and reinstalled over the
>> top of the old install.
>
> Did you do a *repair* reinstall or simply install XP in the same windows
> directory that was already there?
>
I just put the CD in and it didn't give me the option of a repair, (was told
later I should have been pressing F8 whilst it spun up) it did an "upgrade"
right into the same folders as the original install was.

>> I've never done a reinstall before, always started with a freshly
>> formatted disk, so this was a new experience for me.
>>
>> Pretty much everything is back, stable, and working, except I can't
>> install any windows updates. My CD is a SP1, and after the reinstall,
>> went to Windows update site, and it d/l and installed the most current
>> installer, and has tried the BITS update without success, maybe 10 times
>> before I finally turned off Automatic Updates. I did have a copy of SP2
>> on CD, thought I'd try this to get around the internet d/l; double
>> clicked it, it extracted all the files, then got the stop message: ASN1
>> Bad tag value met. Next box was installation won't complete.
>> Figured I'd try to d/l SP2 to the hard drive just in case the CD was bad.
>> Same story.
>
> If your SP2 the full IT redistribution SP2 or a skinnied down version what
> was only what your system needed at the time? Because, if the system is
> different now then the partial SP2 is likely missing things needed for the
> differences.
>
> The full SP2 is 266.0 MB
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en

I've got the full 266 MB update that I took off the d/l center for IT, so
it's got the entire thing.

>> I figure I've lost windows firewall and the security center, but with
>> Norton and Spy Sweeper running hopefully I've covered most of the bases.
>>
>> Any way to work around this ASN1 Bad tag value met. ?

If I get really bored, will probably buy new bits and build a different box.
After replacing the bulged caps, it still starts to flake out at about 198
mhz, so it's slowly deteriorating. Don't know for sure if it is the
processor, memroy, or still the motherboard, but with this windows update
issue, think it's time to admit defeat.

It's fun to tinker, but think this hardware/software combo is beyond it's
days as a stellar race horse. It'll do chores now, and that's about it.

Had hoped this update issue was something commonly seen by IT folks, but a
complete new start sounds like the best resolution. External hard drive
just took the top spot on the shopping list.

Anyone want to take a chance on a pre week 34 Athlon XP 2500+? ;)
Think it was week 23 IIRC.

Thanks!
Mark


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