SP2 messed up my computer
 

I just installe SP2 and I cannot do ANYTHING, I get errors similar to the one below if i try open somthing..., I will of course uninstall sp2 and will wait until further instructions on this board to reinstall it. Any help would be thankful! ty ^^

The instruction at "0x023be9dc" referenced memory at "0x00000000." The memory could not be written.

o btw i am on another comp. typing this DUH lol ^^

nvm cant even do that :/

go ahead and reformat... then reinstall SP2 first thing... it only screws up when updating an existing installation that's been around for a while...

but i have so much that i need on that computer and i cant open my documents or even internet explore , i need to open my computer to turn on system restore... i turned it off because some antiviris site told me that it was required to take off to remove it and so i disabled it and i have school/work stuff and the onlything that i can open on that computer are games....

If you turned off system restore then turning it on again wont help. You'll be setting a restore point "after" you screwed it up.

If you have another hard drive. Intall xp to it. Put the screwed up one in as a slave and copy the files off it to the new installation.

wont he get a conflict with 2 drives thinking they are the master XP installation? i mean unless he sets the drive assignments manually in his bios right?

I haven't had that problem... but that's a good point

after hours ;) of searching i found a solution by going to start:run and typeing in somthing that opends the add/remove program list and i was able to uninstall it... yay^^

The Windows XP installations don't know who is the master or main installation. The boot.ini file on partition 0 of drive 0 (as addressed by the hardware) is what controls the boot order. That's a nice addition to SP2, it's ability to be uninstalled (as opposed to SP1).

yeah, whenever i had the problem i just wrote a new boot sector.