I downloaded the service pak one the other night and my pc refused to boot. In fact it went into a boot loop. It would go about 3/4 the way through boot up and then restart and do it again and again and again. So I tried safe mode, same thing. Then I tried all the other modes you can boot in would not work. I even restored and did not work. So I did a re-install of system files from booting up the xp disk, even that did not work. It erased all my short cuts so I could not run most of my programs on my C drive. By this time I'm pissed! I know the only thing left is a fresh re-install which sucks! O by the way, I had to reactivate xp after I re-installed the system files and it refused to let me reactivate! Said I had gone over my limit for reactivations! So I call Microsoft to see what's going on. The rep. more or less laughed at me and said that her pc crashed also when she downloaded service pak one. And that she was going to have to do a fresh re-install. Then I ask her about not being able to reactivate my xp. She said that the new service pak had a security update that would require you to reactivate everytime there's an hardware change!!! This sucks for us who like to tinker with our pc's. So that made up my mind that I would do a fresh rein stall and not download that service pak one. Guess what, my pc works fine now. Can Microsoft get anything right? I write this to warn of downloading this service pak one so none of you have this happen to you.
