Hi Jeff,
It seems to me that your system is not in a good state... We still have a
DCOM remote debugging case open. Have you had the opportunity to try my
suggestions, by granting access to the "ANONYMOUS LOGON" account?
Before installing the service pack, let's preform a clean boot:
How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353
Under clean boot, we can ensure that there is no third party interfering.
Does it help?
Regards,
Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Jeff Reid - 07 Sep 2004 05:02 GMT
> It seems to me that your system is not in a good state... We still have a
> DCOM remote debugging case open. Have you had the opportunity to try my
> suggestions, by granting access to the "ANONYMOUS LOGON" account?
That's probablby because I'm in a workgroup and not a domain environment.
> Before installing the service pack, let's preform a clean boot:
I tried that, and the service pack loads up, but never runs (with
Task Manager running I never see any application.
I also tried installing from safe boot, no difference.
Jeff Reid - 07 Sep 2004 08:23 GMT
> Before installing the service pack, let's preform a clean boot:
I slipstreamed XP / SP2 onto a cd-rom and re-installed.
After drivers installed, downloaded .NET 1.1 and then upgraded to SP1
without any issues.
Haven't installed Visual Studio .NET (Academic) yet, hope this isn't causing
problems.
Felix Wang - 09 Sep 2004 02:18 GMT
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your update. I will contact you via email for the debugging
issue.
Regards,
Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Your issue might be related to this other person's post:
http://www.mcse.ms/archive67-2004-2-406676.html
one thing to try is to repair your Framework installation before
installing the service packs (instructions are in the 'Support' link off
of '.NET Framework 1.1' in Add or Remove Programs.