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Every time I run System Update 3.0 on my 3000 N100 (XP Pro SP2), I get 'Error 76 received from the Package Index Server. Please contact the Support Centre' after about 16%.

Has anyone else had this error, and what did you do to fix it?

I've tried this on multiple internet connections, so I don't think its my ISP or router blocking ports.

Lenovo just sent me a generic auto-response asking me to check my internet connection works.

Hi,

I am getting the exact same problem. I reinstalled about three times and now I am getting a different error "The Package Index Serve is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."

I am a little miffed because manually installing updates for Migration Assistant and Rescue and Recovery caused me to rebuild in the past: I violated some installation hieracrchy that was undoable.

I rely on this program to get the hierarchy and honestly, I stopped reading the instructions years ago. I just take regular images and if something goes wrong I blow the partition away and reimage but with the R&R partition it doesn't work like that.

I talked to Lenovo and they were lame.

Keep me updated....

Peas!

Ok, now it doesn't crash until it 38% and I get a generic error that system update has crashed and you may lose all you work. If I don't click OK the program will continue to download updates and then during install prepearation locks at 95%.

Does anyone have problems with sys update?

same problem, never updated/changed something before this test, very bizarr...

update system is better now. maybe Lenovo's update server was not available...

Never once got it to complete, so I've uninstalled all the Lenovo junk from the machine. It runs so much faster now.