From: Dave 

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:03:23 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote in message :

| SP2 is bein held back from P4-Prescott users (el crasho).  I don't think
| you're in that category.  There may be other auto-blocks for other
hardware | issues.  I've had a couple with Dell P4 mobile (the hot one, not
a Celeron) | laptops.  A full wipe and reinstall cured both (g).

When I got this Thinkpad back from IBM, it still had my old XP install on
it, but it was flaky, lots of missing .dll error reports, I couldn't
install any new software 'cause installshield wouldn't load, it was a mess.
 All they did was replace the system board, I dunno why Windows would come
back all f-ed up.

I used the on-disk IBM W2K recovery thing, then upgraded that to XP pro,
which has worked fine for me before.  But this time the machine was running
in slow motion, it felt like a Pentium 166 with 8M RAM. It was
insufferable.  So I did another clean install, this time I just used an XP
CD and let it reformat.

The second time took.  Runs like a charm.  As soon as I had XP running, I
immediately stuck in my SP2 CD and did the "upgrade" and that
went well too.

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