Mike Olsen
December 5th 03, 07:31 PM
I had a similar experiance, however it seemed to affect my
applications, more than the hardware and windows itself.
I removed the patch and my PC seems to have returned to
normal. I'm considering not using update at all anymore,
figuring why fix something that might break with something
that is broke.
>-----Original Message-----
>Did the update, and discovered that upon booting the PC,
immediately things
>come to a near-halt in slowness. We can barely enter BIOS
setup, and when we
>can, pressing a key we end up waiting on screen redraw
before the keystroke
>is recognized. Talk about SLOW. Something is clearly
borked here, because
>all this starts immediate upon boot up and long before XP
even begins to
>load.
>Using a Gateway GP7-800 (P3/800), IDE drives, XP Pro -
all patched up.
>
>Things we have done:
>Removed all 3 of those patches - no change
>Defragmented the HD, no change
>Turned off Norton AV Pro, reinstalled - no change
>Uninstalled - no change
>Defragmented again - still no change.
>Next step? Reformat HD and reinstall XP Pro...
>
>Would sure like to avoide reformating/installing XP and
the various Apps.
>
>Seems this latest patch installs more than just the 3
patches - I am curious
>what changes or files got installed that would affect the
initial boot up
>and bork the BIOS???
>
>Hopefully M/Soft will have a fix ASAP -
>
>Any suggestions, appreciated.
>
>
>
>.
>
applications, more than the hardware and windows itself.
I removed the patch and my PC seems to have returned to
normal. I'm considering not using update at all anymore,
figuring why fix something that might break with something
that is broke.
>-----Original Message-----
>Did the update, and discovered that upon booting the PC,
immediately things
>come to a near-halt in slowness. We can barely enter BIOS
setup, and when we
>can, pressing a key we end up waiting on screen redraw
before the keystroke
>is recognized. Talk about SLOW. Something is clearly
borked here, because
>all this starts immediate upon boot up and long before XP
even begins to
>load.
>Using a Gateway GP7-800 (P3/800), IDE drives, XP Pro -
all patched up.
>
>Things we have done:
>Removed all 3 of those patches - no change
>Defragmented the HD, no change
>Turned off Norton AV Pro, reinstalled - no change
>Uninstalled - no change
>Defragmented again - still no change.
>Next step? Reformat HD and reinstall XP Pro...
>
>Would sure like to avoide reformating/installing XP and
the various Apps.
>
>Seems this latest patch installs more than just the 3
patches - I am curious
>what changes or files got installed that would affect the
initial boot up
>and bork the BIOS???
>
>Hopefully M/Soft will have a fix ASAP -
>
>Any suggestions, appreciated.
>
>
>
>.
>