Question Windows XP sp2

[Don Lauer]

Help! Is anyone seeing a problem with Windows Xp SP2 losing track of
working drivers?
I have recently worked on 4 different systems (Dell,HP.Gateway and
Homebuilt) that had peripherals, such as modems and sound cards, fail .
The solution was to go to device manager and uninstall the devices and
let them be redetected on a restart. I now have a Dell that has
apparently lost IDE controller 0 and I cant get the system to boot to
the harddrive even with a new harddrive installed

[Nathan McNulty]

I have not seen any problems such as this, but it does not surprise me.
There are many things that can be adversely affected by Service Pack
2. I don't believe it causes as many problems as some seem to have
(most likely a different cause they attribute to SP2).

Another thing you can always do is reinstall the drivers. This has
fixed most other problems seen with SP2 ;)

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Nathan McNulty
Swap gmail with name for email :)

Don Lauer wrote:
> Help! Is anyone seeing a problem with Windows Xp SP2 losing track of
> working drivers?
> I have recently worked on 4 different systems (Dell,HP.Gateway and
> Homebuilt) that had peripherals, such as modems and sound cards, fail .
> The solution was to go to device manager and uninstall the devices and
> let them be redetected on a restart. I now have a Dell that has
> apparently lost IDE controller 0 and I cant get the system to boot to
> the harddrive even with a new harddrive installed

[uo]

Did you get your problem fixed ? I am curious because I am having the same
problems myself and don't know how to go about it. Please reply to the
group. Thanks.

"Nathan McNulty" > wrote in message
...
> I have not seen any problems such as this, but it does not surprise me.
> There are many things that can be adversely affected by Service Pack
> 2. I don't believe it causes as many problems as some seem to have
> (most likely a different cause they attribute to SP2).
>
> Another thing you can always do is reinstall the drivers. This has
> fixed most other problems seen with SP2 ;)
>
> -----
> Nathan McNulty
> Swap gmail with name for email :)
>
> Don Lauer wrote:
> > Help! Is anyone seeing a problem with Windows Xp SP2 losing track of
> > working drivers?
> > I have recently worked on 4 different systems (Dell,HP.Gateway and
> > Homebuilt) that had peripherals, such as modems and sound cards, fail .
> > The solution was to go to device manager and uninstall the devices and
> > let them be redetected on a restart. I now have a Dell that has
> > apparently lost IDE controller 0 and I cant get the system to boot to
> > the harddrive even with a new harddrive installed