Comments on: Windows XP SP3 Issues and Fixes Continued

By: Michael Omode

Michael Omode — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:29:42 +0000

well, finally installed and it seems to work fine..only thing at boot up sometimes stalls…thank you!

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:54:07 +0000

Hi,

Has anyone experienced problems with SP3 and ATI's TV Wonder 650 PCI? Analogue TV reception works fine, but I have been unable to receive Over the Air HD TV since going with SP3.

Thanks in advance,

Paul

By: Who

Who — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:09:21 +0000

I have an Asus M2N-E SLI board with a AMD64 chip and it will not take SP3. Blue Screen and the Shut Down to Protect carp.

Three other machine boards (2 Asus & 1 Gigabyte) with the same chip and no problems.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:37:19 +0000

Well, I'm one of those who has an Asus A8N SLI Premium and have issues with SP3 abound.

I first downloaded it about 3weeks ago and have had issues since. The problems manifested themselves in different ways. Firstly, I was using Firefox as my browser and suddenly I could get onto any website, although I did have a connection as I could pick up my mail using my client (not Outlook!!). I installed IE7 and still couldn't get onto the web. After looking around for potential fixes I gave up and reinstalled XP.

That's when the fun really started!!

I reinstalled everything with no problem and also installed SP3 again – not really knowing that it had caused my initial problems. After my PC being on for a couple of hours I came back to the BSOD. No real explanation for it. This kept happening at random times, 99% of the time when the PC was unattended. After 2 weeks of enduring with random BSODs and looking around for fixes, I've reinstalled XP and I'm NOT going anywhere near SP3.

I just wish I found this earlier, it would have saved me a lot of emotional stress :c)

Rgds,
Simon

By: Michael Omode

Michael Omode — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:51:44 +0000

Well, I'm not telling you what to do, but as for me- I am not installing it yet.

There were several issues during download and then IE 8 Beta would crash all the time (removed that one too).

I'll wait awhile.

Michael

By: Harrier

Harrier — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:38:08 +0000

I installed SP3 a few hours ago on my MacBook Pro after installing bootcamp 2.1. I installed it with my ant-virus and antispyware on by accident. Before doing that I made sure I cleaned thev registry and defragged afterward. Everything appears to work fine with no problems. I purchased a MacBook Pro just after SP1 was released because Vista was giving me fits. The Mac was on sale because a new model had come in and I purchased it with 3 years warranty, technical support and accidental damage for 3 years for what would have been the same price of a laptop with the same hardware. I'm not advocating one over the other as boh companies have their strategies for getting users out of their computers as fast as possible and buying new ones and their products without complaining and returning back to them.

Vista 32 bit is an example on the PC side.

Apple's effort to deliberately limit hard disk space ad dives as well as their accessibility is another. In m view,XP is the only OS that truly takes advantage of each hardware product on the market as direct 10 X (as opposed to runing direc 9X in the enhanced mode) has never panned out the way MS thought. Leopard still has problems taking advantage of graphics chips it shipped with its computers 3 years ago.

The drive to build in obsolescence is very high. This is generally done deliberately at the customers expense regardless of either company. I don't see XP falling into that category.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:26:16 +0000

I was asked if I wanted SP3 installed on my ASUS A8N and said yes. Wish I'd investigated 1st. It froze up on the final reboot and never reached desktop. I tried to use my acronis because I imaged before I started. I was successful but it still locked up. There must be something it writes to the hard drive initial start up folder. I finally was able to attempt an F8 boot to Safe, but no that froze too. I tried repair where you say its a new install and then change to repair when it asks you later. It removed a bunch of files and got going repairing. In the middle of that a "Fatal Exception". I will now wipe the drive and start from scratch. Thanks MicroSoft. Some day I'll have the money and upgrade to a MAC.

By: Ric

Ric — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:29:24 +0000

I installed SP3 and it caused debugging in Visual Studio 2005 fail. I tried re-installing it and it hangs at 32 minutes loading the network. Now, I can't get through the installation to even access the original OS. Anybody know how to abort the installation that hasn't completed?

By: David

David — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:46:34 +0000

I agree with Jimbo,I also stored sp3
and have no problem…

By: john

john — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:27:34 +0000

Usual Microsoft Update stuff – everyone who doesn't have a problem things everyone who does is an idiot – till something goes wrong with one of their own machines. I let automatic updates put it on an Acer laptop – no problem. I put it on a clean machine formerly hosting Vista 64 – it needed three restarts. I put it on the xp that runs in a parallels window in my mac. It killed the toolbar. If only my company could get rid of the MS-only software we use we could go all mac and be happy.