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*warning...warning* Xp Sp2

post #1 of 31
8/28/04 at 1:27am
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I have a 8790, I guess I didn't see the warnings in time about the Service Pack 2 for XP. I TELL YOU STAY AWAY FROM IT. I had to wipe my HD clean, wouldn't boot from anything or anywhere. It was a $2700 fan at this point. So now I'm loading all my OS/drivers and everything else over again. Download at own risk!!
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post #2 of 31
8/28/04 at 1:34am
wffm
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post #3 of 31
8/28/04 at 1:40am
That sux. However, not all of us have had bad experiences with SP2. Mine has been smooth.
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post #4 of 31
8/28/04 at 1:43am
I'm gonna stay away from sp2 until I know for sure I won't have problems.
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post #5 of 31
8/28/04 at 8:49am
It has been working flawlessly on my 5620 since release or so. I am not sure what it depends on but it might be specific software incompatibilities since hardware should be the same across the sager series.
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post #6 of 31
8/28/04 at 1:38pm
working flawlessly on my 8790 as well...no issues. I have updated all of my computers at home with sp2 and so far so good. Sorry about the bad luck
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post #7 of 31
8/28/04 at 1:55pm
Yeah, I've installed it on 2 Laptops and 3 desktops at the house and no problems...
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post #8 of 31
8/28/04 at 2:25pm
i slipstreamed it to my xp cd and made it an unattended cd with all my regestry tweaks! I installed it on all my desktops and my dad's laptop. can't wait to install it on my new Hypersonic AX7!!!!
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post #9 of 31
8/28/04 at 2:44pm
notting wrong here either........

????
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post #10 of 31
8/28/04 at 4:30pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by OGREtheBUFFOON
I'm gonna stay away from sp2 until I know for sure I won't have problems.

ogre i've got it on my 4750 everythings working fine go for it

(btw these 'new faster servers' seem slower )
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post #11 of 31
8/28/04 at 5:07pm
I installed SP2 on two desktops and one laptop. I had a problem with my friends desktop after installing this morning (through the windows update). Upon attempting to log on I would get the bsod with "beginning physical memory dump" due to idechndr.sys DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I went to a system restore before I installed SP2 and then the computer would just give a black screen after Bios. Then I attempted safe mode, which only worked about 10% of the time and It would still crash in safe mode. Finally after googleing I foud out it was a possible memory leak due to SP2's IDE drivers and some motherboard so I rolled back all IDE drivers to microsoft versions, not intels. Now the computer seems to be working but I cannot tell if the problem is fixed permanintly and have told him not to update for the next couple of months. I will no longer recommend to my friends that they install SP2, as I do not want to be responsible for what happens. I like knowing that i'm completely up to date and Luckily it is working on my desktop. So far I have no complaints about SP2 WHEN IT INSTALLS CORRECTLY!

Good luck getting the problem worked out.
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post #12 of 31
8/28/04 at 5:47pm
I've had no problems with sp2 at all.
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post #13 of 31
8/28/04 at 5:52pm
No problems here either on my Hypersonic GX8.
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post #14 of 31
8/28/04 at 9:22pm
My 5690 boots faster and I've had no problems so far.
It took 32 hours to download and install on a CD-ROM
but everything seems to be working great.
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redbim
5690
3.0 GHz
60 GB 7200 RPM HDD
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post #15 of 31
8/28/04 at 10:02pm
only update to sp2 if you have a legit key
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post #16 of 31
8/28/04 at 10:09pm
What CPU do you have? Northwood? Prescott? Seems to be prevalent problems w/ the Prescotts judging from a few reports here on the boards.
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post #17 of 31
8/28/04 at 10:40pm
i had a problem, i installed sp2, i tried to install far cry, didnt work. uninstalled sp2 tried again, and it worked, so then i installed sp2 again
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post #18 of 31
8/29/04 at 11:42pm
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Thanks all, with your wealth of knowledge. But I'm up and running again with NO SP2! I was freakin out for a short time, I'm leaving in 2 weeks for Afganastan and Microsoft wants to give me a heart attack. But all is well again! I'm glad for all of you that didn't encounter what I did, It sucked!
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post #19 of 31
8/30/04 at 9:37am
no problems here either
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post #20 of 31
8/30/04 at 11:48am
Fellas, most of your problems were stated in the issues pages @ Microsoft. They have a whole list of apps that dont work well, etc. For example, StyleXP 1 doesnt work with SP2. Also, Zonealarm is a no-go.

Having taken some precautions (eg I uninstalled Norton Systemworks before doing the upgrade), my system is fine and dandy after the SP2 upgrade.

Mikhail
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