Just booted my laptop up tonight and greeted with a Windows Update and to find that its Windows XP Service Pack 3, anyone else noticed this or downloaded it yet? I didnt think that it was released still yet as they pulled the plug on it last week. Im downloading it now anyway see how it goes!
Liam
Ive had it from MSDN for a couple of weeks now, I think its sped things up nicley.
Quote from: DeltaZeroIve had it from MSDN for a couple of weeks now, I think its sped things up nicley.
Supposed to be 10-15% on top of an existing windows and 15-20% on a fresh install.
My net is screwed at the moment with 10kbps average download rate from a 6mb line ^^ and cant get my XP SP 3, if any kind sole downloaded the 64bit version for x64 pro and does not mind posting ill give them lots of nanas
Quote from: neXusQuote from: DeltaZeroIve had it from MSDN for a couple of weeks now, I think its sped things up nicley.
Supposed to be 10-15% on top of an existing windows and 15-20% on a fresh install.
My net is screwed at the moment with 10kbps average download rate from a 6mb line ^^ and cant get my XP SP 3, if any kind sole downloaded the 64bit version for x64 pro and does not mind posting ill give them lots of nanas
wont work on XP64 bit. XP64 is actually Windows 2k3 with the XP front end bolted on. Be happy youll get more service packs to come. I am, itll stay in the full support loop until at least th epoint WIndows7 arrives.
I ended up having to repair XP after SP3 cocked it up a couple of weeks ago, but probably serves me right for downloading it before it was officially released?
lol indeed Zpyder but then again you know computers... cant always go as planned (infact it barely ever does!)
Installed fine here, everything working as intended.
I just updated to it and it did something to my network, the little computers in the task bar where flickering on and off the router kept restarting and shutitng down.
rolled back to sp2 and all is fine again.
whats going on?
Quote from: DEViANCEI just updated to it and it did something to my network, the little computers in the task bar where flickering on and off the router kept restarting and shutitng down.
rolled back to sp2 and all is fine again.
whats going on?
Maybe something to do with this mate?
QuoteNetwork Access
Protection (NAP)
NAP is a policy enforcement platform built into Windows Vista, Windows
Server 2008, and Windows XP SP3 with which you can better protect
network assets by enforcing compliance with system health requirements.
Using NAP, you can create customized health policies to validate
computer health before allowing access or communication; automatically
update compliant computers to ensure ongoing compliance; and optionally
confine noncompliant computers to a restricted network until they become
One of the new features
Just installed here too and everything seems fine on my laptop, will update on my desktop over the weekend at some point. Only difference iv noticed is that Windows seems to be running a lot faster than when it was on SP2 when navigating through windows etc.
Liam
Quote from: neXusQuote from: DEViANCEI just updated to it and it did something to my network, the little computers in the task bar where flickering on and off the router kept restarting and shutitng down.
rolled back to sp2 and all is fine again.
whats going on?
Maybe something to do with this mate?
QuoteNetwork Access
Protection (NAP)
NAP is a policy enforcement platform built into Windows Vista, Windows
Server 2008, and Windows XP SP3 with which you can better protect
network assets by enforcing compliance with system health requirements.
Using NAP, you can create customized health policies to validate
computer health before allowing access or communication; automatically
update compliant computers to ensure ongoing compliance; and optionally
confine noncompliant computers to a restricted network until they become
One of the new features
Im not sure.
Ive re-installed it now and its still doing it...
the network just keeps saying acquiring ip address then network cable unplugged, acquiring ip address then network cable unplugged, acquiring ip address then network cable unplugged over and over.
its working now because Ive manually set my IP, gateway and DNS. but if i set them to auto (DHCP) then it starts doing it again.
any ideas?
DHCP to run it needs AFD, Netbios over TCP/IP and IPSEC driver, and the TCP/IP protocol driver
Get the latest mobo or if a seperate network card latest drivers for it see if that stops it? You got an asus mobo by any chance?
It went on fine here and even sorted out a problem I have, for one boot :/
When I boot up not all of my "run on startup" applications load. Any ideas ?
Quote from: DEViANCEany ideas?
to be fair, looking at your other issues in relation to speed I would suggest you have a buggered router.
Even though for me the upgrade to SP3 went fine on my laptop, i installed SP3 on my main rig last night and towards the end i kept getting debug errors with the red Xs, had to keep clicking to close it like a hundred times and it finally got to the end and i restarted as prompted, anyway after it loaded windows and i waited for the desktop to appear, just a blank screen :S ok then i waited a min but nothing and then i restarted again and it seemed to get through to the desktop fine this time but for some reason it re-detected the USB port where my wireless adaptor is plugged in and nothing happened there so i disconnected the adapter and then plugged it back in, the adapter came back on & automatically connected to my network again and the machine with SP3 hasnt played up since. :shrug:
Liam
Looks like I spoke too soon. Since Ive upgraded Ive gone from never crashing to getting the very occasional BSOD followed by a reboot before I can read the errors. Its rather annoying and SP3 is really the only thing I can blame.
Fingers crossed for some hotfixes.
I think you can turn off the "reboot on BSOD" thing so you can read the errors?
No idea how though!
Right click My Compie > Properties > Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery settings button > untick Automatically restart
Thankee chaps. Its hanging and BSOD on mcdbus.sys, which is something to do with MagicISO. Ill just remove it and see if that fixes it.
but....surely this cant be - issues with XP SP3??....but its XP - and it never goes wrong.....only vista does that.....
Well its working as intended now. I dropped an e-mail to the people at MagicISO so they are aware of it, Im intrigued to know if they are seeing this error since SP3 went live or whether it was just plain bad luck on my part.