Re: network slows down after SP2 install

They all had to be flattened and XP Pro re-installed

are you saying that a support engineer from microsoft asked you to reinstall all of your clients?


"jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A7900F82-BFD9-42CD-90C0-F31782C5C76D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The blog notes and instructions from the SBS blog have all been heeded. 32
hours of talking with tech support on the phone, changing the nic card,
updating all the drivers, and still, the system is dogging to the point of
being painful. Here is the unexplainable issue: I have 5 new machines, all
came from Dell with XP Pro installed. They all had to be flattened and XP
Pro re-installed. They worked great until SP2 was installed. Now they take
5 minutes to open an 8MB spread*** they used to open in 20 seconds. My 3
old machines were upgraded from W2K to XP Pro and they worked fine before SP2
was installed. Afterward, they are slower, but work better than the new
machines. The old machines can still run ACT 6.0. The new machines fail
with a program error after opening the database. Explain that!

All file access to the network is so slow now. Don't suggest anything
previously mentioned in the blog. 4 MS engineers can verify that all the
tricks have been done as outlined in this blog.

There must have been some other deep layer of connectivity between the
server and workstations that does some kind of handshaking/security checking
that is slowing things down. Excel seems to have been hit the hardest. It
is a terrible thing to see a 2GB 4Ghz Dual Core processor take 60 seconds to
copy 10 files of 80K each from the network to the local drive.

I have 5 SBS 2003 servers and 3 of them are just fine. This one is dying
and SP2 failed to install on the other one. I am afraid to work the issue as
it might turn out like this one.

I really do need ideas and help short of flattening the server, as that may
not help anyway. Ideas, anyone?

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