Windows XP SP3 problems

[Laurijan]

Take a few minuted to read - quite worth to know..

I installed a fresh XP PRO x86 SP2 yesterday on my gaming rig and started to update from the MS update site.
I had little drivers installed at this time exept for what XP knew and the network card driver. The update which was recommended was XP SP3 and i installed it, after this i rebooted and downloaded the audio driver for my mobo.

Then the problems began, when i installed the audio driver it could not finish the installation and gave me an error code everytime i tried to intall it no matter which version i tried (mobo CD+internet).
Also i saw that SP3 did not install IE7 and so i went to the MS update site to download all further updates but when i tried to install the recommened 4 updates (included IE7) it tried to download them but failed - so i always got the message that the updates where not installed no matter what i tried.

I removed SP3 and then the audio driver could be installed and i could update my XP from MS update site by selecting manually the updates i want which where all of them - exept SP3.

I read somewhere that XP SP2 users with IE7 get IE6 with SP3 installed and can´t install IE7 after that anymore - is that true - man that would suck (i havend tried SP3 because of this info)?

Lauri

 

[Namslas90]

SP3 has more bugs than the Amazon forest...just remove it using Add/remove programs and stay away from it until MS gets the bugs worked out.

 

[dark2099]

I have been using SP3 on my lappy (and a few other machines I don't use as much) since it came out with out any problems. Concerning IE7 you have it backwards, once you switch to SP3 you cannot uninstall IE7 and use IE6.

 

[jonmcc33]

SP3 has more bugs than the Amazon forest...just remove it using Add/remove programs and stay away from it until MS gets the bugs worked out.

SP3 on my Latitude D400 laptop, no problems at all.

 

[Namslas90]

The word from MS is if it works then fine use it. However it does not work properly on all computers. If you are experiencing problems then remove it and use the "Custom" choice when downloading MS updates, scroll down and choose "Review other updates". After updating, remove sp3 from your update list.

Currently I maintain over 200 computers at 3 businesses, I have gotten mixed results with SP3, probably close to 70% OK, with 30% having issues. Most of the issues are with "older" computers (Before 2005).

 

[Laurijan]

Now that i first installed all other updates exept SP3 manually i then installed SP3 and it seems to be ok - my audio driver works and i still got IE7

 

[Rebo&Zooty]

most users who have issues are using OEM windows disk from a system builder that are AMD based, the problems arise from the fact that oem's like dell/compaw/hp/exct install ALL drivers intel and amd with windows, their disks are BAD NEWS, they do bad things, the way around the problem, slipstream sp3 into a new disk, stick the disk in and "upgrade" from that, it will update windows in most cases without any problems and worse case, you can run recovery consol from the disk and use the sfc /scannow http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html command to replace all files that dont match the versions on the cd (easy way to update, works every time for me)

i have setup sp3 on 8-9 systems for people recently, 1 of them had some issues, but the windows install was buggy to begine with, and we just hoped it would save us the time reinstalling the os and all his apps(god that bastage has alot of crappy apps for work installed)

 

[jonmcc33]

The word from MS is if it works then fine use it. However it does not work properly on all computers. If you are experiencing problems then remove it and use the "Custom" choice when downloading MS updates, scroll down and choose "Review other updates". After updating, remove sp3 from your update list.

Currently I maintain over 200 computers at 3 businesses, I have gotten mixed results with SP3, probably close to 70% OK, with 30% having issues. Most of the issues are with "older" computers (Before 2005).

It's not good to make things up. It has nothing to do with older computers...

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3299543&SiteID=17

It states why it was delayed. It was the same thing that caused issues with Windows Vista SP1.

 

[Namslas90]

It's not good to make things up. It has nothing to do with older computers...

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3299543&SiteID=17

It states why it was delayed. It was the same thing that caused issues with Windows Vista SP1.

OK, let me rephrase that;

Older OEM computers...LOL

 

[jonmcc33]

OK, let me rephrase that;

Older OEM computers...LOL

Are you familiar with Dynamic RMS? It's not OEM systems but retailers that utilize it for tracking purposes.

Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) allows retails to respond rapidly to consumer demands, proactively manage inventory and pricing, and control critical business information across your retail network, from the point of sale (POS) to supply chain, customer and financial management systems.

I'm sure it might be put on some OEM systems if they used an OEM's image but most intelligent corporations shouldn't be doing that but using their own image. Using Microsoft's SMS (now SCCM) to mass deploy images with corporation software pre-installed and configured is a much better idea.

Now if you are upset that I have corrected you then that's too bad. Part of the TPU rules is to not spread FUD and that's what your statement was. Try it and if it works fine then use it? That sure wasn't Microsoft's official word on it at all.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

 

[w2richwood]

been using sp3 since it was a beta works good
Rich

 

[Laurijan]

been using sp3 since it was a beta works good
Rich

Since the SP3 install yesterday i had no issues with it too

 

[xu^]

been using SP3 for almost 2 weeks with np's on 2 diff PC's.