Microsoft XP SP3 released.
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IT IS NOT A FINAL BUILD!
Silly me. Uninstalled and lost an hour at least.Tomasz
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Let me add to the tale of woe,
I thought I did yesterday but its gone missing on me on this page.
I installed SP3 Saturday afternoon and have not been able to boot my computer since. I've been on the phone with Microsoft yesterday and for more than three hours today. Bottom line is my computer is fried and all attempts by MS to restore it have failed. Their suggestion is for me to install a parallel copy of Windows XP on my hard drive, copy the data files over to the new partition and then delete the fried partition and reinstall all my software. Ugh.
A computer tech that we buy our computers from said he wanted a crack at restoring it I've agreed to send it to his shop tomorrow.
What I've learned is that SP3 was not supposed to be released to the general public until tomorrow the earlies and the version I downloaded Saturday was for developers only (didn't say so on the MS Download Center site). Apparently with my particular hardware/software configuration, it corrupted the registry and other boot sector files and all attempts to uninstall SP3 (which didn't seem to leave itself in my directory) failed, attempts to restore to a previous version of a working bootable system failed. Basically everything MS could think of failed.
Bottom line, until they've figured it out, stay away from this release.
Allen
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Don't you just love these MS updates??!!
Both times I downloaded Vista SP1 it very neatly shutdown my wireless internet connection
The first thing to do is turn off the automatic updates...this at least gives you some control over your software destiny.
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It all seems rather worrying that MS are meant to be releasing a major update soon (today?) and yet it still has majot bugs. Sometimes i cant help but wish theyd just get it right for once!
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Sorry to hear of your problems. I assume that installation did a backup, so there should be a possibility for recovery with installation CD and recovery console. If that is too complicated task then it might be easier to add another HD and do a new XP installation on that. Then you add your failed HD as a secondary disk and recover your data.
I was a bit worried that linked file might be a RC, not a final release. It's true that SP3 is out, but only for MSDN. What I have hear of SP3 is that there is some minor bugs, but there should not be any nasty ones... but these incidents to certainly tell that one should not hurry with the SP3. Normally with a major patch like this, it's always good to wait a week or two, to be sure that there are no nasty bug, that was missed in beta / RC, lurking in code.
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Notareal and others,
Supposedly SP3 did backup the registry etc but after working with MS Tech Support for literally hours, they stayed on the phone with me for most of the time while chkdsk ran in both /p and /r modes, tried to restore from the recovery console etc and finally said the best they could do was install a fresh copy of Windows on another partition of my HD and copy the data over to the new partition, delete the corrupted partition and allow me the pleasure of installing all my software and drivers all over again on a 4 year old laptop! I even started to do that but called the computer shop we buy all our computers from and with whom we have a long term relationship. they picked up the laptop this morning and I think I heard that they are in the process of fixing it and keepting everything intact.
Let us pray.....
Allen
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You know, reading this I'm just happier than ever that SketchUp (and Rhino) will run on Ubuntu Linux now, even if all my Rubies are non functional...
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Windows XP SP3 is now released - available from windows update.
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Okay I updated my entire system to SP3 which is a 66MB upgrade, everything is so far so good but can now see where many could have panicked.
On restart which it automatically does it went dead, it hung on black screen, I was puzzled by this and decided to remove all USB devices (3D connexion controller, Tablet, External drives, etc) and restart. It restarted without problem and I reconnected all USB devices and did another restart (almost like remapping these devices) and everything is A for OK now.
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Hehe, must have been a heart stopping few moments there Pete...
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LOL, oh yeah! especially being my main workstation where all my modeling happens.
I do suggest that one needs to create a restore point before installation (even though the instal does do a backup)
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I installed SP3, no problems with install and reboot. Xp does run faster under SP3 and it solved the wakeup from sleep problem I had. It also fixed the problem I had with recognition of USB devices that occured with my digital camera.
As I understand it the install problems occur with AMD processors and with some HP laptop models.
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I eventually got the courage together to install the downloaded SP3 file (used the one from Coen's link). I created a restore point first, just in case... All went well, but it somehow messed with my Internet connection settings, so I investigated and found the problem. Seeing that I use static IP addresses for the machines I had to enable netBIOS over TCP/IP under the WINS tab to get connectivity back up and running. Strange that the update failed to set the correct settings, but all seem well now.
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I've installed it on four PC's...not a hitch with any of them. As a matter of fact, I think it fixed some problems I had created for myself by tampering with Registry settings and then losing my archived version.
...runs pretty nicely on an Asus Eeepc, too.
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Can't figure out what was more senseless: downloading SP3 over a dialup connection or staying up all night building an SU house. OK, OK, I know it's the former.
Haven't seen a speedup yet, but I'm already having to fix little bits of this and that, including my login here. I restarted myself, so that might have helped with the hanging screen problem.
The only good news was that the installation itself did a System Restore at one point during the interminable installation process. It's marked as Software Distribution Service 3.1.
Murphy's best law has always been, "Whatever you have to do, you have to do something else first." Microsoft is always good for that. I usually forget what I was supposed to be doing about six levels into it.
But SU's fun, and these forums are gems. Thanks for all the advice!
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For those of you who have installed XP SP3 and need to keep your time and date correct on your files, please note that installing mine changed the time from Daylight Savings to Standard time.
It's also causing more and more little problems. MS at its best. . .
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Hmmm, after reading this thread I can't see a good reason to install SP3 at all. Can anyone give me one?
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If you have fully patched SP2, I don't know if there really hurry - wait another month and there should be enough SP3 bugs fixed that it can be installed safely. Well... that is what I am doing
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well its been a few months now and I still have'nt had the cahoolies to install sp3.
Anybody tried recently, any problems?
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I went from sp2 to sp3 last week...went fine...I have not noticed any improvements.
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