Endless loop at Microsoft

[Guthrie]

I upgraded the motherboard and CPU which, of course, required reinstalling XP. So now I have an old version of XP.

I click the little balloon to upgrade to SP2, which tells me I must upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 before I can download the SP2 upgrade. No problem, I download IE7 (even though I'll never use it again), only it won't even install because I'm not running SP2.

So I reboot and click the little balloon to upgrade to SP2. And so on, and so on, and so on.

Any suggestions?

[pokergrader]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...;displaylang=en

[Neuge]

Try going to the windows update website and installing updates manually. You'll have to use IE, but it should work with IE5 and up.