SP1 Problems with Toshiba 5200

[Tex]

I have had an issue with SP1 on my Fujitsu laptop -- will
not play DVD's now. Also, I cannot use my firewire
enclosure anymore...all after installing SP1. But, I
haven't seen an issue with USB or touchpad. Appears MS
might have a major probelm with their not-so-service pack.


>-----Original Message-----
>I recently bought a Toshiba Model 5200 (probably a
strictly Canadian model),
>upgraded the XP Home to XP Pro, and things seemed to run
fine. When I
>installed Service Pack 1 for Win XP, my USB devices
(mouse, touchpad) and
>the wireless network interface, which had been working
properly, suddenly
>ceased to function at all.
>
>Has anybody got any clue as to what is going on, and how
I can rectify the
>problem? I had to do a System Restore to revert to a pre-
SP1 state in order
>to work wth the machine.
>
>Many thanks for any pointers to a solution!
>
>Cheers,
>Gary
>
>
>.
>

[Gary Millward]

I finally got things to work by deleting all the USB devices in the Device
Manager, and letting XP re-find the devices and re-install the drivers. As
for the networking, I mucked around with it and it finally started to work.
No rhyme or reason to it - just blind perseverance.

It's my job to make these things work, so configuring my own machine was a
challenge. God help the poor ******* who buys one of these things
themselves, expecting it to just work, then does the recommended updates,
and has the thing crap out on them. Who to contact - Toshiba or Microsoft,
and good luck at getting to a "real" person at either company. It's a good
thing there are newsgroups to help us commiserate with each other and try to
find solutions!

Cheers,
Gary

"Tex" > wrote in message
...
> I have had an issue with SP1 on my Fujitsu laptop -- will
> not play DVD's now. Also, I cannot use my firewire
> enclosure anymore...all after installing SP1. But, I
> haven't seen an issue with USB or touchpad. Appears MS
> might have a major probelm with their not-so-service pack.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I recently bought a Toshiba Model 5200 (probably a
> strictly Canadian model),
> >upgraded the XP Home to XP Pro, and things seemed to run
> fine. When I
> >installed Service Pack 1 for Win XP, my USB devices
> (mouse, touchpad) and
> >the wireless network interface, which had been working
> properly, suddenly
> >ceased to function at all.
> >
> >Has anybody got any clue as to what is going on, and how
> I can rectify the
> >problem? I had to do a System Restore to revert to a pre-
> SP1 state in order
> >to work wth the machine.
> >
> >Many thanks for any pointers to a solution!
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Gary
> >
> >
> >.
> >