Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver

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I loaded Microsoft Windows XP Pro on a new system. Everything seemed
to go fine. I loaded all the Windows updates including SP2. After
loading all the updates the system hangs during boot time for
approximately two minutes with a blue screen showing the Windows logo
and the message "Windows is starting up...." While I was trouble
shooting this problem I noticed that there is an item in the System
Devices portion of the Device Manager (Properties of My
Computer>Hardware Tab>Device Manager>System Devices> Microsoft System
Management Bios Driver) that has a yellow circle by it with a black
explanation point of something similar in it. When I clicked on this
item and then on the General tab of the next screen I found the
message "Windows cannot load the Device Driver for this hardware. The
driver may be corrupt or missing.

When I googled the statement about the System management BIOS Driver I
saw some conversation about this causing slow boot up and that this
was only a problem after SP2 was loaded. I am running SP2 on 3 other
machines and have never had this problem nor the slow boot.

Any and all help would be appreciated.
 
Try running windows update again,after the initial SP2 install thiers about
30 more updates to go....
 
Thanks. I will try it again. I guess I should delete Sp2 and all those
I did after SP2, right?
 
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