Thanks Nick for the link, your right about this gateway, man it sucks. I've tried every patch, fix, etc., and this machine just does not like SP2. I was able to get past the reboot....reboot...reboot be selecting F8 during reboot and turning off the option for reboot when receiving an error. However I just keep getting different conflicts/errors once I get into windows.
I attempted a BIOS upgrade following Gateways support page instruction, however the floppy bootable flash disk I created won't even boot. I basically have repaired it back to default from the factory, applied XP SP1, and am manually updating some of the important security patches.
I think as old as this machine is, these people won't need SP2 anyway, they will most likely get something new soon anyway. I've turned off the SP2 update from notifying them in the future that it is available.
On another note, if you have not heard of "The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows" this thing rocks.
http://www.ubcd4win.com I have another machine I'm working on that has been a problem child for my friend. As soon as he gets on dial up, or broadband, SOMETHING (worm, spyware, etc) starts uploading packets of information to his machine. This totally makes the machine crawlllll and you can't navigate on the internet either. You can't even update your virus or spyware, etc., because of what is uploading. I've tried everything I know, and this CD is great, and free. It includes many of the free tools out there many of us use. The nice thing is you create a bootable CD using a valid O/S and can isolate and eliminate problems without having to load windows.
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