Hi,
I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled Win XP from my original install CD. It is SP1. I have spent four hours trying to get it updated to SP 3, and have just become sick of beating my head against the wall. Automatic updates isn't working for some reason. When I go to Windows update site, it says that Win XP can't access that site with Win XP as my OS. I've found download links for SP1a but they won't work because I can't access the server. To make matters even easier, I tried to upgrade IE to version 8, it failed and now I don't have IE on the computer anymore, so I can't access some Microsoft sites. I can re-install IE I think, but I am at a complete loss about how to get Win XP up to date, and it seems that without the latest SP, none of my drivers are going to work correctly. Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Chris Buhl
I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled Win XP from my original install CD. It is SP1. I have spent four hours trying to get it updated to SP 3, and have just become sick of beating my head against the wall. Automatic updates isn't working for some reason. When I go to Windows update site, it says that Win XP can't access that site with Win XP as my OS. I've found download links for SP1a but they won't work because I can't access the server. To make matters even easier, I tried to upgrade IE to version 8, it failed and now I don't have IE on the computer anymore, so I can't access some Microsoft sites. I can re-install IE I think, but I am at a complete loss about how to get Win XP up to date, and it seems that without the latest SP, none of my drivers are going to work correctly. Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Chris Buhl