grech01 Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 I had a mother board fail on a Dell XPS M140, I replaced the mother board. Afterwords the windows installation appeared to be hosed in some fashion. I read that a repair of the installation was required due to the licensing. I ran the repair using the Dell OEM disk and failed to realize that it was SP2. Now for the most part, the only way anything works is in safe mode. If it starts normally then many services are failing or not working correctly. This was my sons computer and I believe he had put on SP3 and added .net and ie 8. Can someone tell me how to fix this? I was looking at creating a slipstreamed SP3 disk but can't get AutoStreamer to use the OEM install files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Welcome to the Windows Forum! OEM disks do not slipstream well; in fact I have never been able to accomplish this. Can you download the full SP3 pack and try installing it on that system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grech01 Posted April 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 maybe.... in safe mode... msiinstaller is just one of the many things not working if it comes up normal..... I don't recognize the processes, but the only way to be able to do anything is to cancel most of what is running. Control Panel doesn't even work. I have seen several references to using an OEM disk for slipstream but they are all short on details. I copied the cd to my harddrive but autostream doesn't like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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