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XP SP2 Problems on several machines
I've now tried the SP2 install on 3 different machines with various problems
and been forced to restore all 3. After the install on 2 of them, Add/Remove programs only showed the first 25 entries when sorted by name, the first 34 when sorted by frequency - interesting. The 3rd showed NOTHING in Add/Remove. AVG Anti-virus not picked up by Security center until I removed and re-installed it. Intermittent FTP connection errors. Outlook 2003 SP2 intermitently will not find one of three mail servers. Many programs auto-update features no longer work, including Adobe apps, Topo! mapping, Ez CD 7, eMachineShop among many others. Was able to get all working after completely turning off firewall. Here are the problems, in addition to the above mentioned: Machine 1 - eMachines M6805, AMD Athlon 64, 768mb RAM, XP Home, 28 gb free Explorer hangs on shutdown every time. 6:05 boot time, very poor overall performance, out of system resources messages, video corruption when attempting to start EA software or Autodesk 3DS. Card reader no longer works. Mouse disappears after any full screen application, unplus and replug external USB mouse and it returns. Automatic Updates tray icon appears, hung at 0% for 6 days, tried turning off for a couple of days and doing manual, no change. No option for uninstall, tracked down reg key and uninstalled "successfully" as it appears that some "features" including new Automatic Updates, do not uninstall, mouse problems persist. Wireless drops and reconnects every 6 minutes. Machine will neither hibernate nor suspend. Power management appears to not be working at all. Machine 2 - Intel D875PBZ, 3.2 GHz P4, 2 GB RAM, ATI AIW 9800, Logitech Cordless MX Duo, 2 x 160GB Hitachi SATA drives, Plextor PX708A DVD+- drive. All drivers updated and current. Explorer hangs on startup intermittently. Extended keyboard functionality no longer works. TV Tuner fails to init on 1 of every 3 boots, video capture drops audio and intermittent video frames. Machine will not go to suspend. DVD burns from either Sonic MyDVD or EZ CD 7 result in DVD unplayable on either of my set top players, play fine on the PC. Machine 3 - A7N8X-Deluxe V2, XP3000+, 1 GB RAM, 2 x 200GB WD2000JB, ATI AIW 9600 Pro, Microsoft Intellimouse Wireless Explorer w/tilt, Plextor PX704A DVD+- drive. Explorer fault on shutdown. Tilt on mouse no longer works. Video capture is consistantly choppy. DVD problem same as machine 2. Color matching profiles for Epson R300 and Canon S9000 no longer appear to be used, reloaded no change. Completely unable to uninstall SP2, restored image. I tested and had the many of the same results with the RC's and hoped that these would be resolved. Office SP2 cured most of the Office issues, but I haqd to upgrade MapPoint 2000, Streets and Trips 2004, Visual Studio, Encarta 2003 and Publisher 2000 to get any updates to work at all. I would expect that at least MS apps would be functional after SP2, but it does not appear that older versions were a concern. Has anyone else experienced any of these problems, or have any potential solutions? |
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XP SP2 Problems on several machines
have a look here;
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?h...com%26rnum%3D1 similar add/remove prob.... Check you can't scroll (way) down and find more programs at the bottom of the list. Cheers. |
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