Hello Dave,

Regarding on your visual studio 2005 sp1 install failure, did you get any
error message or instruction or did you always fail at the same point(get
the same error)?

Based on my experience, a common problem is the "Software Restriction
Enforcement" check which require a large amount of sequential physical
memory. You can try disable it as indicated in the following articles, you
can find some other suggestion on installing VS 2005 sp1 there:

#Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Released
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/15/visual-studio-2005-service
-pack-1-sp1-released.aspx

#Installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/VisualStudio2005SP1Instal.asp

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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