cquirke
Thank you for your reply, the most helpful yet.
To answer your questions.
I was only joking about leaving well hidden spyware on my system it was only
ment as a homage to anyone who can write code that can be hidden that well.
Along with scanning with three differant spyware programs I submitted a
HijackThis log to a forum at AumHa for analysis, just to be sure.
In a reply to Plato I asked about the possibility of a drive issue as I am
running SATA/Raid 0 drives, Since SP2 is a OS upgrade and you have to be
concerned about your SATA drivers on a OS install (Iv'e read they are not
automatically
included in a XP install that is why they are provided on a floppy you have
to hit F16 or something during install to include them) I can't imagine this
is the issue as many people are runnig this drive config out there.
I have two 160 Gig drives ,0 striped.
As for the memory issue the BIOS and all other system info programs I have
show 1 Gig. I think Msinfo has a glitch because the memory is dual channel?
Before trying to installing SP2 I used codestuff startup manager to disable
all but the system startup funtions.
I also diconnected all peripherals and removed thier drivers.
I installed SP2 from a disc the first time so none of my browsers were active.
Can you explain your following passage with a little more detail
"But, reminds me; try the Boot.ini entry parameter to disable DEP, as
many apps and utils are incompatible with this (especially some av).
DEP is supported by recent AMD and more recent Intel CPUs, and is an
OS feature added by SP2. Quite likely to be your problem."
i.e. how do I check for and disable DEP, what is DEP, what is av, I'm just
computer savvy enough to be dangerous but not that hep.
This may help analyze my problem it is an excerpt from the SP2, svcp_log
,created when SP2 tried to install. There are three logs in all too large
for the post size allowed here.
3.157:
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3.157: 2004/09/28 18:57:36.765 (local)
3.157:
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\S-1-5-18\0915379b547e57fc7f174520805bc480\update\update. exe (version 5.5.1005.0)
3.172: Service Pack started with following command line: /si
/ParentInfo:a4b9a2388558e6408f665916a472bd1f
3.203: Return Value From OnACPower = 1
3.203: OnACPower returned value( 0x1 ) which is Equal To 0x1
3.203: Condition succeeded for section OnACPower.Section in Line 1 of
PreRequisite
3.203: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Wi ndowsFeatures is
not Present
3.203: First Condition in A6Block.Section Succeeded
3.203: Condition succeeded for section A6Block.Section in Line 2 of
PreRequisite
10.985: DoInstallation: CleanPFR failed: 0x2
11.032: SetProductTypes: InfProductBuildType=BuildType.IC
11.047: SetAltOsLoaderPath: No section uses DirId 65701; done.
11.266: IncludeDirectoryIdFromInfSection: No DirId found for:
DontRemoveOnUninst.DirId
11.266: DoInstallation:SetupOpenInfFile for OldUninstallInf file
C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst\spuni nst.inf not found: 0x3
11.266: CreateUninstall = 1,Directory = C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$
16.250: CheckRegistryValue: RegOpenKeyEx for SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active
Setup\Installed Components\{FDC11A6F-17D1-48f9-9EA3-9051954BAA24} KeyName
failed :0x2
16.250: Conditional load of section WindowsMessenger.Condition succeeded
118.844: ref tag c:\windows\driver cache\i386\sp2.cab does not exist
118.844: ref tag c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\sp2.cab does not exist
118.907: Starting AnalyzeComponents
118.907: AnalyzePhaseZero used 0 ticks
118.907: No
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\S-1-5-18\0915379b547e57fc7f174520805bc480\update\updtblk .inf file.
123.547: SetupVerifyInfFile failed with error 0x490 for fgdscsi.inf of
device FGDXBIOS\FGDX\0000
123.688: SetupVerifyInfFile failed with error 0x490 for
c:\windows\inf\fgdscsi.inf of device FGDXBIOS\FGDX\0000
123.891: SetupOpenInfFile in IsThirdPartyInf Failed with error 0x2
126.563:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}\oem4.CAT
trusts inf c:\windows\inf\oem4.inf of device
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00D4&SUBSYS_0C111458&REV_A4\3&13C 0B0C5&0&09
129.782:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}\oem7.CAT
trusts inf c:\windows\inf\oem7.inf of device
PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_7003&SUBSYS_00401102&REV_04\4&2FF 3801D&0&4150
130.110: Failed to query DriverPath of ROOT\LEGACY_MODEM\0000 0x2
130.625: SetupVerifyInfFile failed with error 0x490 for fgdxbus.inf of
device ROOT\SYSTEM\0002
130.782: SetupVerifyInfFile failed with error 0x490 for
c:\windows\inf\fgdxbus.inf of device ROOT\SYSTEM\0002
132.641:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}\oem29.CAT
trusts inf c:\windows\inf\oem29.inf of device
USB\VID_06A9&PID_0005\03B407796122
135.157: OEM file scan used 16250 ticks
213.828: c:\windows\system32\ativvaxx.dll is in the list of oem
drivers...skipping copy!
214.500: c:\windows\system32\ati3duag.dll is in the list of oem
drivers...skipping copy!
214.500: c:\windows\system32\ati3d2ag.dll is in the list of oem
drivers...skipping copy!
214.641: c:\windows\system32\ati3d1ag.dll is in the list of oem
drivers...skipping copy!
214.703: c:\windows\system32\drivers\ati2mtag.sys is in the list of oem
drivers...skipping copy!
214.875: c:\windows\system32\ati2dvag.dll is in the list of oem
drivers...skipping copy!
219.328: AnalyzePhaseOne: used 100421 ticks
219.328: AnalyzeComponents: Hotpatch analysis disabled; skipping.
219.328: AnalyzeComponents: Hotpatching is disabled.
219.328: Persisted hotfix directory is missing.
219.328: FindFirstFile c:\windows\$hf_mig$\*.*
219.328: Error getting find handle for c:\windows\$hf_mig$\*.*
252.860: AnalyzePhaseTwo used 33532 ticks
252.860: AnalyzePhaseThree used 0 ticks
252.860: AnalyzePhaseTwo used 0 ticks
252.860: AnalyzePhaseThree used 0 ticks
273.750: AnalyzePhaseFive used 20890 ticks
275.391: AnalyzePhaseSix used 1641 ticks
275.688: AnalyzeComponents used 156781 ticks
275.688: Downloading 2020 files
275.688: bPatchMode = TRUE
275.688: Inventory complete: ReturnStatus=0, 264422 ticks
275.688: Num Ticks for invent : 264422
321.641: [dumpDownloadTask] Update.exe posting request file to download a
total of 82502763 bytes (61938227 bytes in patches and 20564536 bytes in
fallbacks)
321.672: [dumpDownloadTask] Returning 0xf200
321.672: dumpDownloadTask returned 0xf200 (more files to download)
326.375: UnRegisterSpuninstForRecovery, failed to delete SpRecoverCmdLine
value, error 0x2
326.375: DoInstallation: Failed to unregistering spuninst.exe for recovery.
326.469: Service Pack 2 installation did not complete.
326.469: Update.exe extended error code = 0xf200
1.312:
================================================== ==============================
1.312: 2004/09/29 05:32:46.281 (local)
1.312:
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\S-1-5-18\0915379b547e57fc7f174520805bc480\update\update. exe (version 5.5.1005.0)
1.312: Service Pack started with following command line: /si
/ParentInfo:12805abe9a28d044bf4fb093b900099d
1.328: Return Value From OnACPower = 1
1.328: OnACPower returned value( 0x1 ) which is Equal To 0x1
1.328: Condition succeeded for section OnACPower.Section in Line 1 of
PreRequisite
1.328: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Wi ndowsFeatures is
not Present
1.328: First Condition in A6Block.Section Succeeded
1.328: Condition succeeded for section A6Block.Section in Line 2 of
PreRequisite
8.453: ---- Old Information In The Registry ------
8.468: Source:C:\DOCUME~1\ALLUSE~1\APPLIC~1\McAfee.com\Ag ent\McSubDB.Dat
8.468: Destination:
8.468: ---- New Information In The Registry ------
8.468: Source:C:\DOCUME~1\ALLUSE~1\APPLIC~1\McAfee.com\Ag ent\McSubDB.Dat
8.468: Destination:
8.515: SetProductTypes: InfProductBuildType=BuildType.IC
8.531: SetAltOsLoaderPath: No section uses DirId 65701; done.
8.750: IncludeDirectoryIdFromInfSection: No DirId found for:
DontRemoveOnUninst.DirId
8.875: Express: 82,502,763 bytes were downloaded.
63.906: [PatchFilesFromResponseBlob] returning STATUS_READY_TO_INSTALL
65.390: UnRegisterSpuninstForRecovery, failed to delete SpRecoverCmdLine
value, error 0x2
65.390: DoInstallation: Failed to unregistering spuninst.exe for recovery.
65.422: Service Pack 2 installation did not complete.
65.422: Update.exe extended error code = 0xf201
5.594: ================================================== ==============
Thank you for your help
Shumandu
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