Dell has reinstall guides for most Dell systems. Look under Product Support/Reinstall Guide in the upper left corner of the Forum window. Note that if there is a "chipset driver" for your system, it needs to be installed right after the basic installation of XP is completed.
Where can I get a download of Windows SP 2? Do I need to save it to another CD-ROM so that after Windows XP Home Edition is installed, I can install it then?
After I reinstalled Windows XP Home Edition, I installed the Windows Service Pack 2 and then it prompted me to restart the computer for it to take full effect. I did it and then it will constantly show the Dell logo screen and then goes to the Windows XP Home Edition logo loading screen and then just shuts off. Then it starts back up again and does the same thing over and over again.
Did you do a Reformat and Re-install of windows, or did you do a system repair ?
Try it one more time, this way...
1. If you have a printer installed, unplug it from the computer.
2. Unplug your modem cable from the computer.
3. Put the reinstallation disk into the cd drive and shut down the system. Boot back up and hit the F-12 key and start the reformat and re-installation of windows like before.
4. After the re-installation of windows, install the SP-2 cd ( Did you get a cd or did you download the sp-2 by any chance ? ). Lets see if this works this time.
I have just done a repair installation of XP and it doesn't recognize my user accounts. In fact on the welcome screen where it says to clickuser name, there are no names, nothing to click. I tried ctrl alt del and just put in administrator without a password and got a logon message saying "The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively." While I was repairing the OS it did give me an error message dealing with COM+ with an error code=0x80070534. It also stated that no mapping between account names and security ID's was done. Please see system root\comsetup.log for more details, whatever that means. Have any ideas?
I have just done a repair installation of XP and it doesn't recognize my user accounts. In fact on the welcome screen where it says to clickuser name, there are no names, nothing to click. I tried ctrl alt del and just put in administrator without a password and got a logon message saying "The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively." While I was repairing the OS it did give me an error message dealing with COM+ with an error code=0x80070534. It also stated that no mapping between account names and security ID's was done. Please see system root\comsetup.log for more details, whatever that means. Have any ideas?
I have just done a repair installation of XP and it doesn't recognize my user accounts. In fact on the welcome screen where it says to clickuser name, there are no names, nothing to click. I tried ctrl alt del and just put in administrator without a password and got a logon message saying "The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively." While I was repairing the OS it did give me an error message dealing with COM+ with an error code=0x80070534. It also stated that no mapping between account names and security ID's was done. Please see system root\comsetup.log for more details, whatever that means. Have any ideas?
Thanks
Someone else may have a better idea, but I never had any success with a repair of windows and stayed away from it. I would do a complete reformat and reinstall of windows. Hope you have backed up everything you want to keep, since the reformat and reinstall wipes everything clean. Always keep the things you want burned to a cd or dvd-r. I do not know the error code either...Start another thread and ask the same question again to see anyone can assist you...Good luck
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Dell has reinstall guides for most Dell systems. Look under Product Support/Reinstall Guide in the upper left corner of the Forum window. Note that if there is a "chipset driver" for your system, it needs to be installed right after the basic installation of XP is completed.
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You can download it from here then write it to a CD for installation after XP.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 (Windows XP Home Edition).
I did a reformat and reinstall of Windows XP.
I'll give it another try without anything plugged in and see if it works.
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First off, what Model system do you have ?
Did you do a Reformat and Re-install of windows, or did you do a system repair ?
Try it one more time, this way...
1. If you have a printer installed, unplug it from the computer.
2. Unplug your modem cable from the computer.
3. Put the reinstallation disk into the cd drive and shut down the system. Boot back up and hit the F-12 key and start the reformat and re-installation of windows like before.
4. After the re-installation of windows, install the SP-2 cd ( Did you get a cd or did you download the sp-2 by any chance ? ). Lets see if this works this time.
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I have just done a repair installation of XP and it doesn't recognize my user accounts. In fact on the welcome screen where it says to clickuser name, there are no names, nothing to click. I tried ctrl alt del and just put in administrator without a password and got a logon message saying "The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively." While I was repairing the OS it did give me an error message dealing with COM+ with an error code=0x80070534. It also stated that no mapping between account names and security ID's was done. Please see system root\comsetup.log for more details, whatever that means. Have any ideas?
Thanks
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February 1st, 2005 02:00
I have just done a repair installation of XP and it doesn't recognize my user accounts. In fact on the welcome screen where it says to clickuser name, there are no names, nothing to click. I tried ctrl alt del and just put in administrator without a password and got a logon message saying "The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively." While I was repairing the OS it did give me an error message dealing with COM+ with an error code=0x80070534. It also stated that no mapping between account names and security ID's was done. Please see system root\comsetup.log for more details, whatever that means. Have any ideas?
Thanks
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Someone else may have a better idea, but I never had any success with a repair of windows and stayed away from it. I would do a complete reformat and reinstall of windows. Hope you have backed up everything you want to keep, since the reformat and reinstall wipes everything clean. Always keep the things you want burned to a cd or dvd-r. I do not know the error code either...Start another thread and ask the same question again to see anyone can assist you...Good luck