SP2 problems - constant rebooting

beer enigma

Just installed SP2 on a Toshiba laptop & it now constantly reboots, cant get safe mode or recovery console !! - any ideas please

irishgeo

you try booting off the cd and doing a repair. My laptop needs a bios upgrade before i can install sp2. i havent bothered with it. A good firewall keeps me safe.

Check the toshiba website.

beer enigma

That was the only way I could get in, but its knackered the XP install - takes about 3 minutes to get into the main screen now, so looks like its a complete re-install. Incidentally, the Tosh laptop was running the most up to date bios & still SP2 caused problems. For a disk that comes in a packet with the words 'share with your friends after you've installed it' - doesn't bode well for happy friendships !!!!

Quick question here.....the Tosh laptop was purchased new with XP Pro already installed, it has the serial key on the base of the lappy, but no XP disk. I do have a disk from my HP laptop though - what's the chances of using the HP disk with the Tosh key ??

dieselfreak

Most media supplied by vendors will be "restore media", which will restore the factory installation, and some will check that the system is from the relevent vendor before performing the "restore", in other words its most likely useless on any other system.

if the media is a simple Windows XP distro then the key should be fine. it is unlikely to be a VLK version of the software which will require a different key.

also are both laptops running XP pro... as xp-home keys wont work with xp-pro and visa versa.

beer enigma

Yep - both running XP Pro & both purchased around the same time, so should be a similar copy of XP.

The HP disk allows for a new installation, so I'm presuming its a full version - I'll give it a bash & let you know

Thanks for the help