After Bios Upgrade Got 2 Problems

**spawn1980** · May 23rd, 2008, 01:12 PM

I have Win XP Service Pack 3 Installed I don't know if you need any other info about my PC.

First Problem Automatic Update popup don't go away I tryed everything I reinstall AU in inf Folder I've tried several off and on steps still nothing.

Second Problem Away Mode showed not installed.

Bonus Thrid Problem I WANT TO UPDATE WINDOWS...!..

**BOB IROC** · May 23rd, 2008, 02:04 PM

are the updates failing to install?

I have had similar problems but the latest one I actually had to force install the windows update agent

YOu can download that from here
http://download.windowsupdate.com/Wi...gent30-x86.exe

I made a directory in the root of my C drive called WUAgent and dowloaded the file there.

After the file was downloaded I ran the file from a command prompt like so

c:\WUAgent\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe /wuforce

after that I re-tried windows update and it worked fine.

**NooNoo** · May 23rd, 2008, 02:08 PM

Away mode... so this is XP Media Centre?

**spawn1980** · May 23rd, 2008, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Away mode... so this is XP Media Centre?

XP Home Ed.
Whats werd is I have 3 HD one with Vista Home, XP Home, Storage and after the bios uodate only XP is infected vista reinstalled all the hardware the same as xp and came up good Werd

**spawn1980** · May 23rd, 2008, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by BOB IROC

are the updates failing to install?

I have had similar problems but the latest one I actually had to force install the windows update agent

YOu can download that from here
http://download.windowsupdate.com/Wi...gent30-x86.exe

I made a directory in the root of my C drive called WUAgent and dowloaded the file there.

After the file was downloaded I ran the file from a command prompt like so

c:\WUAgent\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe /wuforce

after that I re-tried windows update and it worked fine.

I will give that a try and let you know.

**BOB IROC** · May 23rd, 2008, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by spawn1980

I will give that a try and let you know.

I am not sure that will work but it did help on my boss's tablet that after he installed SP3 Windows update would download the updates but the installs would fail. From what you described in your first post the symptoms sounded similar.

**NooNoo** · May 24th, 2008, 04:24 AM

Away Mode or did you mean something else?

**CCT** · May 24th, 2008, 06:27 AM

On May 22 you had OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium installed per your other thread ( http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=81866 ) and a Windows Update pop-up problem and on this thread you have XP SP3 with the same issue?

edit: I note you said you have Vista HD and an XP HD - so the solution with Vista was a complete new install?

**CCT** · May 24th, 2008, 07:47 AM

This site has a comprehensive list of actions to repair Windows Update:

http://swigartconsulting.blogs.com/t...s_update_.html

**spawn1980** · May 24th, 2008, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by CCT

edit: I note you said you have Vista HD and an XP HD - so the solution with Vista was a complete new install?

Vista is my primary os and I had XP installed on my other HD for about 3 Months now recently I upgraded to Service Pack 3 and did the bios upgrade for os XP everything went well after a restart XP started reinstalling all the hardware drivers then I got a popup about Automatic Update is turned off. When I started up vista after it finish reinstalling all the drivers I had no problem Only XP

**spawn1980** · May 24th, 2008, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by BOB IROC

I am not sure that will work but it did help on my boss's tablet that after he installed SP3 Windows update would download the updates but the installs would fail. From what you described in your first post the symptoms sounded similar.

It did not work I got a message saying Automatic Update Agent is already install. I even reinstalled

REGSVR32 WUAUENG.DLL
REGSVR32 WUAUENG1.DLL
REGSVR32 ATL.DLL
REGSVR32 WUCLTUI.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS2.DLL
REGSVR32 WUWEB.DLL

Still nothing

**NooNoo** · May 24th, 2008, 11:14 AM

Did you get confused about away mode then?

**spawn1980** · May 25th, 2008, 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Did you get confused about away mode then?

I saw a unknown icon in Device manager so when I did a system error scan with http://driveragent.com the unkown shows up as Away Mode still don't know what that mean. But my most concern is Automatic Update.

**CCT** · May 25th, 2008, 06:20 AM

It appears you have a mobo that once supported XP Media Centre and now are using XP - some info here;

http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=663734

**NooNoo** · May 25th, 2008, 07:43 AM

Exactly CCT - Spawn, away mode is available in Vista and in MCE 2005, but not in XP home or Pro. So we can call "away mode" resolved.

Right click on the task bar and select task manager. Click the processes tab. Is there a process called wuaclt.exe? Or wuauclt.exe?
The first one is a trojan, the second is the process that should be running

You also need to start, run and type in
services.msc
Click OK
Is Background Intelligent Transfer Service running? Disabled? Stopped? Set to Automatic or Manual?
Is the Automatic Updates service running? Disabled? Stopped? Set to Automatic or Manual?

What firewall software are you running?