My friend asked me to reformat his computer recently as he was getting the blue screen of death every now and then, I have reformatted many times and never really had any problems. But this time it was different. I did the typical thing and put my Vista 64bit Business CD in and went through the typical settings, making sure I completed formatted the hard disk before installing Vista. Everything went well and the install seemed to be fine, the first thing I did on his computer to get it back up and running was install all the windows updates. Then I would follow by installing his graphics, sound and chip set drivers, just in case they had service pack dependence issues.
Now, as I was installing the updates I had issues with the installer module crashing after it had downloaded the updates and was doing the install phase, when the update did crash I did the typical thing and stopped the installer restarted and tried again. But while looking in the update history is continued to say many of the updates where failing. I tried and tried to update the machine but it was crashing the installer or just stalling all the time. I decided I must have done something wrong when installing Vista so completely wiped the disk again and tried to fix the problem.
With a fresh install I went to do what I did before, update windows. This time I didn't get a modular crash, but instead 54 out of the 74 updates failed... I tried again and they continued to fail and fail. I read in troubleshooting and looked on the internet and it mentioned about corrupt cache files, I followed the windows instructions and cleared the downloaded updates to try and get fresh downloads, but again I was getting random failed updates.
I then tried using a different Hard Drive, one from my old system but I know it works. I completely reformatted it then installed Vista, but strangely enough it had the same issue. I was beginning to get confused and thought well... may be its my Vista CD, it might have got scratched. I went to get my XP SP2 CD and tried that, again making sure I reformatted before installing. But to my astonishment it was having exactly the same problem as Vista was having... updates continued to fail.
I thought for a moment this might now be a Microsoft problem... may be corrupted drivers, like what has recently happened with the Nvidia drivers using specific languages. But I came back from a meal with my girlfriend and he told me he couldn't install games, not a single game would install. Something about CM2 or CS2 or something, my friends girlfriends brother said that's typically an issue with reading data through the IDE cable, so again I went to his box of bits and opened a brand new IDE cable plugging it in, reformatting and installing. But again... the same problem.
His machine is up and running, but he continues to get failed updates and every now and then a blue screen of death. He has university deadlines as well as myself and after spending two whole days trying to fix it I have got no where. His machine works and runs, but is unrealisable and unsecured.
Does anyone know why this issue would be present as currently I'm lost...
Now, as I was installing the updates I had issues with the installer module crashing after it had downloaded the updates and was doing the install phase, when the update did crash I did the typical thing and stopped the installer restarted and tried again. But while looking in the update history is continued to say many of the updates where failing. I tried and tried to update the machine but it was crashing the installer or just stalling all the time. I decided I must have done something wrong when installing Vista so completely wiped the disk again and tried to fix the problem.
With a fresh install I went to do what I did before, update windows. This time I didn't get a modular crash, but instead 54 out of the 74 updates failed... I tried again and they continued to fail and fail. I read in troubleshooting and looked on the internet and it mentioned about corrupt cache files, I followed the windows instructions and cleared the downloaded updates to try and get fresh downloads, but again I was getting random failed updates.
I then tried using a different Hard Drive, one from my old system but I know it works. I completely reformatted it then installed Vista, but strangely enough it had the same issue. I was beginning to get confused and thought well... may be its my Vista CD, it might have got scratched. I went to get my XP SP2 CD and tried that, again making sure I reformatted before installing. But to my astonishment it was having exactly the same problem as Vista was having... updates continued to fail.
I thought for a moment this might now be a Microsoft problem... may be corrupted drivers, like what has recently happened with the Nvidia drivers using specific languages. But I came back from a meal with my girlfriend and he told me he couldn't install games, not a single game would install. Something about CM2 or CS2 or something, my friends girlfriends brother said that's typically an issue with reading data through the IDE cable, so again I went to his box of bits and opened a brand new IDE cable plugging it in, reformatting and installing. But again... the same problem.
His machine is up and running, but he continues to get failed updates and every now and then a blue screen of death. He has university deadlines as well as myself and after spending two whole days trying to fix it I have got no where. His machine works and runs, but is unrealisable and unsecured.
Does anyone know why this issue would be present as currently I'm lost...