forums.wsusoffline.net

I've been bitten by this one a few times now:

Error message after you upgrade a computer that uses a processor other than an Intel processor to Windows XP Service Pack 2 or to Windows XP Service Pack 3: "STOP: 0x0000007E"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953356

The short version is that if you run WSUS on an HP/Compaq computer running XP SP0/SP1 on an AMD processor, you'll get a STOP 0x7E. So if you run the factory recovery on said system, and then run WSUS, you'll get stuck in a reboot loop. It's easy enough to fix (see the above KB), but it costs time and kills the automatic update process.

I don't imagine it would be very hard to add a check in WSUS for this prerequisite update, and I could certainly hack it in there myself given the time to read through the sources. But if someone with more of that "Free Time" I keep hearing about wanted to tackle it, I'd be mighty appreciative.

Hi.

Pls. try http://trac.wsusoffline.net/browser/trunk (r528), since my test environment is insufficient.

Regards
T. Wittrock

Will do. I'll reimage the (current) problematic system & give it a try. Thanks!

Yep, that got it on the first try - thanks!

I took a look at your patch. I could have spent a month digging around in the code to understand how it all ties together, and still not come up with something as beautifully elegant as your solution. Nice work!

Thanks for feedback and approval!