SP 2 problems

Soreali · Post by **Soreali** » September 17, 2004, 1:48 am

I'm trying to install SP 2 on my system. It gets about halfway done and just gives me an error message saying Access Denied. Any input or explinations as to why this is happening are greatly appreciated..

Thanks again.

noel · Post by **noel** » September 17, 2004, 1:57 am

You are either A) not logged onto the system in question with administrator rights or B) there is a critical file somewhere in your system that is owned by a group/user other than administrator.

valryte · Post by **valryte** » September 17, 2004, 11:32 pm

What a hunk of junk. I tried to install it at work, about 5 exceptions during install. I rebooted and the shell (explorer) would not load. I had to reboot into safe mode and click no when I logged in so I could rollback to yesterday's configuration.

Computer was a Dell Dual Processor Xeon workstation with factory install Windows XP Pro with all the hotfixes installed, Norton AV, Office 2003 , VS 2003 and 6.0, and Firefox. The computer was maybe 2 months old.

I was able to rollback (yeah, yeah, I put too much trust into MS, I should have imaged the drive first) The computer is back to normal and I made an image for my next attempt to install SP2. I'll remove Firefox (as it bitched about that) and probably disabled Norton AV.

Adelrune Argenti · September 18, 2004, 10:07 pm

I ran into a couple of issues where the BIOS of the MB needs to be flashed in order to actually boot correctly after installing SP2. It kept locking up at AGP440.sys until I flashed the BIOS.