[Mike Fisher]

I was using Win XP Pro SP1a with no problems. I downloaded and installed all updates from the Microsoft site with no problems. I did a disk cleanup, system file check, scan & immunize with several different antispyware applications, scan with antivirus, and defrag. My system ran wonderfully. I received SP2 on CD from Microsoft and installed. BIG problems.

My desktop (with icons) appears, but none of my programs (such as defrag, internet connection, etc.) will run. I tried to uninstall SP2, but received a message saying "no". I tried to re-install Win XP Pro SP1a in a clean boot, and now my computer is stuck in setup. A message appears saying, "Fatal error: Setup failed to install product catalogs." (Other messages say, signature for win XP upgrade is invalid, cannot find text for message #0xfffffdda in message file for syssetup.dll, and that the CPU setting is incorrect.) I set the BIOS (including the CPU setting) to DEFAULT, with no improvement.

I tried to restart in Safe Mode without success (but it did tell me that I am running SP1). Right now, my computer hangs in setup, restarts, hangs in setup, restarts, with all the messages, above. The rescue disks didn't work--does anyone have any ideas?

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Hi Mike Fisher! Welcome to G2G!

When you did the re-install Win XP Pro SP1a in a clean boot, did you do a complete FORMAT of the hard drive and then installed Windows XP or did you do a REPAIR installation?

Fenor

Edited by Fenor, 11 April 2006 - 06:28 PM.

[Fenor]

Hi Mike Fisher! Welcome to G2G!

When you did the re-install Win XP Pro SP1a in a clean boot, did you do a complete FORMAT of the hard drive and then installed Windows XP or did you do a REPAIR installation?

Fenor

Edited by Fenor, 11 April 2006 - 06:28 PM.

[Mike Fisher]

Set my boot order to CDROM as the first and let it boot from the original Win XP SP1a CD. Tried a system repair; a message appears saying, "Fatal error: Setup failed to install product catalogs." I re-installed Win XP Pro SP1a in a complete format of the hard drive, and now my computer works (barely).

And I thought all the bugs with SP2 had been taken care of. If this is true, I need a list. Most of my programs have not been re-installed; I un-installed them so that I could install SP2 in a clean environment.

[wannabe1]

Hello Mike Fisher...

and now my computer works (barely).

When you say this, what exactly do you mean? Is it slow? Does the system hang? Are you getting a lot of errors? The more information we have on your problem, the easier it will be to help you.

wannabe1