Windows Updates Fail, repeatedly

that worked!!! the weird thing is though, that i just did the above procedure forKB977074, but when I resumed nromal startup services and retsarted the system...ALL of the updates were installed successfully.

what could be the problem? my nVidia drivers? i have a yellow exclamation point next to co-processor in my device manager which i do not know how to get rid of...

could you help on me on that please?

thank you sooo much for this.

prncess23 said:

that worked!!! the weird thing is though, that i just did the above procedure forKB977074, but when I resumed nromal startup services and retsarted the system...ALL of the updates were installed successfully.

It's hard to say what was it.It could nVidia drivers - I saw some errors nVidia in your setupapi.dev.log but It was hard to guess it was serious or to ignore,it would be also any 3p application as well,please note many applications add *.dll modules under explorer.exe process and sometimes cannot disable these modules even on clean boot,so there is way some applications can cheat clean boot as well.

i have a yellow exclamation point next to co-processor in my device manager which i do not know how to get rid of...

Update all your drivers,to do that you can use also this application (freeware)Free Driver Update Software - Device Doctor
You can also check in Windows Update>>Check optional updates

If updating drivers will not solve problem,post screenshot from devicemanger

i did the windows update check optional updates...it had one for my nVidia driver...installed it but failed. gonna try the freeware.

okay...i installed device doctor...it found 2 updates. i updated them and they were installed (i confirmed by re-scaning with device doctor). However, the coprocessor issue isnt solved.

i took a screen shot.

in "Coprocessor properties" click on "Details" tab next go to "property" and choose "Hardware Ids" and post here hardware ID

I registered just to say thank you Flavius, I had almost the same exact problem as prncess23 and your solution helped me. Now that I'm here, I think I'll stick around.

Thanks for the solutions.

-Update to the latest System Update Readiness Tool for Windows 7 "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821"
-Restart PC
-Run the windows update again (all failed update status now successful)

Good luck all this solution work for me.

Flavius said:

I have bad feelings about it,which ones hotfixes you have problem,there are also here threads with these hotfixes unfortunately without solution

1.Run cmd.exe with administrative previlliges (right click on cmd.exe) as admin and type:

sfc /scannow

2.Run Readiness Tool Description of the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista, for Windows Server 2008, for Windows 7, and for Windows Server 2008 R2
even if this tool don't solve problem it create CheckSur.log file in C:\Windows\Logs\CBS folder
3.Download firegenul Altair Technologies Ltd.
place firegenul.exe in C:\Windows\System32

next again run cmd.exe with admin previlliges and type:

firegenul

it creates report from WindowsUpdate.log and is saved to C:\Windows\System32 as FireGenReport.htm
4.Prepare log from VistaSysInfoTool VistaForums SysInfo Tool
5.Find CBS.log file in C:\Windows\Logs\CBS folder

all files CBS.log,CheckSur.log,firegenReport.htm and log from VistaSysInfo pack to ZIP format and attache to post

I had this same problem. But it turns out that it was all about my internet connection. It has to be an Ethernet connection and not a WIFI connection. Clearly because WIFI in many situations does a reset during the download and that causes errors during the update download. Temporarily changing to an Ethernet connection solved the problem...