Need sp2 and 3, help!

[Marcus1960]

Im trying to upgrade an old Toshiba laptop to xp sp 2 and 3, but whatever I dl from MS or here comes up as "files corrupted" or "cannot reach server".
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

[Niclo Iste]

what about downloading it on another computer and then bringing the installer via usb or CD over to the toshiba?

[Marcus1960]

thx, tried that several times. From what Im reading here perhaps the old RAM chips are bad?

[Niclo Iste]

It could be that or a corrupted OS. What's the history of the machine?

[Marcus1960]

It could be that or a corrupted OS. What's the history of the machine?

Wifey bought it new back in 2003 or so, I reinstalled the OS from Toshiba to reformatt the HD. I did put Firefox browser in and works fine. Need sp2&3 to make the USB wireless card work. It only has 512MB of RAM, service pack 1.

[slgrieb]

Marcus, I'm confused. If you have just done a factory restore on the system and can't install SP2 or 3 either by a direct download or via Windows Update, I might agree with the memory issue. Of course, on a fresh installation of an old copy of XP, you might have to install a bunch of updates before Windows can successfully install the Service Packs. On the other hand, if this is an installation that's been in place for a while, I'd suspect a malware infection.

Sorry, I'm unclear on your circumstances. Anytime you post a request for help on a tech support forum, it's good to take a deep breath and describe the problem from it's start. Basically, you need to spell the issue out for us in language a child would understand.

My best advice would be if you have re-installed a new copy of an older version of Windows, use Windows Update to install all the patches that are usually prerequisites to SP2 and 3. That can take a long time. In XP, Windows Update is available through the Help and Support menu.

[Marcus1960]

BTW MS has the Network version of SP2. It tells us to go to the Update page for the Express version, but its never there! Sux!

[Ferrit]

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...35-SP2-ENU.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...P3-x86-ENU.exe

[NooNoo]

Bad download or a bad burn, both of which can be caused by bad RAM or bad blocks on the hard drive, inconsistent power supply or even corrupt page file. I always download load the service packs on a known good machine and then transfer via usb/cd and then run it from the hard drive.

I suggest you use http://www.memtest.org/ to test the memory, get the iso onto a known good machine and burn a CD, it will boot the machine (assuming it's set to boot from cd) and run at least 2 sets of tests.

Run chkdsk /f /r on the hard drive as well.

[Marcus1960]

Bad download or a bad burn, both of which can be caused by bad RAM or bad blocks on the hard drive, inconsistent power supply or even corrupt page file. I always download load the service packs on a known good machine and then transfer via usb/cd and then run it from the hard drive.

I suggest you use http://www.memtest.org/ to test the memory, get the iso onto a known good machine and burn a CD, it will boot the machine (assuming it's set to boot from cd) and run at least 2 sets of tests.

Run chkdsk /f /r on the hard drive as well.

Thanks! I'll try that. Im about to get rid of the piece of junk!