Regulator Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I installed SP2 from a cd on my XP Home machine and after it installed, it took away my ability to use the internet. So i uninstalled it and during this process, it froze. So, i rebooted the machine and it runs very slow. I looked on the MS website and tried the ways listed for remving it, but none seemed to work. I have also noticed that in device manager, the P4 chip doesn't seem to be working. does anybody know if I should uninstall this and see if it will reinstall the P4 chip by itself? I've tried moving things around to a spare drive, but it wont let me copy and paste. Does anybody know what I should do? I don't have the pc's help disks to hand but I am going to try that. Anyother ideas apart from a reformat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustynuts Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Every time I think about installing SP2 i read stories like this and think better of it. Can't help I'm afraid, but at some point I might need help myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 SP2 is fine once you turn off all the crap that comes extra (Security Center, Firewall, Auto-updates, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bounce Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I have to say SP2 has been fine on my laptop also, but as Thorburn says its fine after you switch off all the crap! i think the best thing is reformat if its doing silly things, once you take into account all the time you can spend on trying to fix it, you could of more than likely have it reformatted and up and running again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si_GTi Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 No worries with XP2 here either but I have heard plenty of horror stories in my line of work (IT support). I've never hada problem but 9 times out of 10 I am installing it onto a new or cleanly-installed copy of XP. In fact at work last week we used XP2 to fix a problem with corrupt system files on a client's laptop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 It fecked up 4 of our pc's at work. The girls in the office clicked on the "updates have been downloaded for your computer" bubble thingy that pops up from the taskbar. They all got to the Windows loading page and then looked like they were going to boot up but then didn't get any further. Had to re-install Windows on all of them and made sure I turned off automatic updates. Fecking Microshaft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philbes Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 12 PCs at work and 2 at home have been updated to SP2 and all have auto' update turned on. No problems at all. Lack of interent access probably due to firewall needing configuring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I have XP2 on my home PC with no problems. Auto update is switched on, but all the other stuff is off. No firewall etc from Microsoft. Do I look daft... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 SP2 installed and runnning fine for me. Been on for ages. Auto Updates OFF, Firewall OFF (got my own, ta for trying Mr Gates!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regulator Posted February 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 it was all working fine, and I would have kept it but it wouldn't load any pages onto IE, so it had to go. when i started to uninstall it, it froze and then the machine was K.O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 Yeah, my IE died after SP 2 went on. Never really used IE anyway, so only notice much later. Only used IE to check if a site is down, if Netscape 8 and 7.2 cannot get to it! Might need a few IE patches from MS..............maybe I can live without IE then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regulator Posted February 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 For anybody wanting to install SP2 on their machine, i strongly suggest that they read into slipstreaming XP so that SP2 is installed when the re-install windows. PM me for any help on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 [ QUOTE ] For anybody wanting to install SP2 on their machine, i strongly suggest that they read into slipstreaming XP so that SP2 is installed when the re-install windows. PM me for any help on this! [/ QUOTE ] Seconded. I've done quite a bit of work using slipstreamed and multi-boot Windows CD's. ryanvm.msfn.org and www.nliteos.com are VERY handy resources The RyanVM allows you to slipstream all the hotfixes up to mid-January into a Windows install which is very handy indeed. Nlite allows you to add or remove components from the CD and creates an ISO for you. DVD I've made at work contains XP SP2 and 2003 Server, installs all the common drivers for our systems, MS Office, Anti-virus, etc all without any user intivention except for selecting the partition to install to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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