I am new here but i bet there has been talk of sp2 before. I am working on a friends Dell Laptop. It is an inspiron 2500, celeron 700 with 256 mg of ram. When i install sp2 all goed well until its first reboot. Then the boot screen comes up, the first XP screen and then when the desk top should appear.....all is blank. I believe that windows completes the load, i just cant see it. I get a system start tone and everything else acts normal, just no display. i uninstallled sp2 and back to normal.........any ideas on how to get a good install of the service pack???????? VSTK