Re: SP2 story - did I do well?

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From: Larsen (larsen_at_connectdesigns.com)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:39:29 -0700

Hey,
I have to stick my oar in here, as I wonder through the
site reading threads trying to find some clue about fixing
my PC.
I had a great, smooth running fast WinXP machine, always
updated, Norton AV, zonelabs, spybot, a clean machine.

Auto update sent me the SP2, so I let it do it. since then
I have been going from one problem to another, if it isnt
kernel stack errors, or random boot failures, its hangs and
crashes, and now it seems i am not even able to change or
update device drivers because access is denied.

I have tried restores, recoveries, and have sat here
watching reboots pretty much all weekend. I will NEVER let
Autoupdate autoupdate again. I will ONLY install service
packs, and this will be the last MS OS I will actually buy.
If I can get it free with a system I will take it, but i
refuse to spend hours/days every year fixing MS's fixes and
patches.

Anyway, thats my opinion, if you got this far, thanks for
listening, if you have any ideas, apart from reinstalling
everything, which is where i am now, and I'm just off to
buy another drive to do it on.

All the best! chin up!

Larsen

>-----Original Message-----
>Troubleshooting SP2 for Windows XP
>http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm
>
>--
>Carey Frisch
>Microsoft MVP
>Windows XP - Shell/User
>
>Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
>http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>"David" wrote:
>
>| I have deployed SP2 on a number of systems to date as I
am sick of cleaning
>| up desktops and laptops of security issues that could
have been avoided by
>| the user. I am living in hope that SP2 will help reduce
my workload. We have
>| also gone through a period of testing in operation, so
I/we are confident
>| its a good upgrade.
>|
>| However, I installed it on a desktop this weekend that
caused my confidence
>| to plummet. The desktop used a ASUS MoBo with Silicon
Images SATA (and RAID)
>| interface. This was the S3112 set. The SATA drive was a
single C: drive....
>| no RAID.
>|
>| SP2 installed fine from the CD-ROM (of the 250 Meg
download) and went to
>| reboot. On reboot it could not find the registry. At
that point I was torn
>| between bad (read old) SATA drivers where the OS
couldn't find the drive or
>| indeed a corrupt registry.
>|
>| I popped in an XP CD and ran recovery consol having
first made a floppy of
>| the SATA drivers so I could F6 it. Now in recovery
consol the SATA drive
>| could be seen...... and I did the registry swap with the
repair registry,
>| but on rebooting I got the XP logo and then a high speed
BSD.... you know
>| the one you cannot see but for a millisecond or so.
>|
>| It been Sunday on a labor day weekend, I figured I was
on my own on this
>| one, so I quickly created a second clean install of XP
on the machine and it
>| worked.
>|
>| Did I then install SP2? Not on your life. The machine
has gone back to its
>| owner in the hope that he doesn't pollute the Internet
with more security
>| holes, and it has made me consider now before I upgrade
any more machines
>| with SP2.
>|
>| I will continue to read up on this issue and have only
found one suggestion
>| on a forum to date regarding DEP. Of course I was not
able to perform the
>| advice offered for a number of reasons.
>|
>| Ideas anyone?
>|
>| Jethro
>
>.
>

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