Windows XP Service Pack 2

[mapleleaf]

just put SP2 on one our workstations at the office- everthing seems fine up to now.

Edit:
put it on at home too and my vpn still works fine .. phew

 

[mark.t]

se2

had it on 2 lap tops and buggerd up nero and scsi on third and not down loading till all gliches sorted by

1,you the user via downloads to fix probs
2, microsoft its self


so in 2006 maybe ?

 

[GrahamC230K]

Got an odd one with SP 2 here, on my home PC, could do with a few heads on it!

All is good apart from my NIC has disappeared my device manager, no lan connection in Network connections etc.

However, if I do an IPConfig, it knows it's there!!

WTF?!

Have had the card out and back in, with a boot in between. Windows didn't detect hardware after the reinstall. Nothing in Device man. but apprears in IPconfig still!

 

[WLeg]

You tried installing the updated driver for it ?

 

[GrahamC230K]

You tried installing the updated driver for it ?

That's problem part 2.

I cant find a downloadable driver for it, for XP anyway.

It's a Compaq NC3123 NIC.

I can't do update driver, as it doesn't exist in Device Manager!

 

[Sp!ke]

For the sake of a couple of bob, I's just go and buy a new NIC card (Branded) and worry about getting it sorted later.

 

[GrahamC230K]

I've gone back to my pre SP2 upgrade GHOST image. Going to run like this for a bit. When my enthusiasm returns, I think I'll remove my NIC, upgrade to SP2, the reinstall and see what happens.

 

[Brian WH]

Is there any advantages to upgrading to SP2 apart from the improved Internet Protection, which I don't need????

 

[rizal2510]

Given it another go today...so far so good..fingers crossed..

 

[GrahamC230K]

I have gone back to my SP1 build, installed a more up to date Intel driver (8255x_based) for my NIC (it is a Compaq card, but Intel chipset) and will be trying SP2 again.

Both are signed drivers, but the Intel one stands a better chance I think........


@ Brian - no you don't NEED it if your are other wise SP1, with all security patches and have a fireall and antivirus.

I am doing it because I like to keep up and knowing this stuff is also my living.

 

[Sp!ke]

I shoved SP2 on my home laptop last week.

It then failed to boot giving a horrible BSOD. Wouldnt even boot in safe mode.

Microsofts fix was to boot off the XP CD, recovery console and manually remove SP2.

Cut a long story short, turned out that the SAM was also corrupted and it wouldnt accept the Admin password to get into the recovery console.
According to MS, I was stuffed. However a little tinkering with a linux boot floppy managed to bypass this and into the console. NTFS security is a joke.

Loads of manually driven DOS commands later, SP2 removed.... and back to where I started after 6 hours work

I wont be trying again for a while.

 

[Brian WH]

@ Brian - no you don't NEED it if your are other wise SP1, with all security patches and have a fireall and antivirus.

Thanks I won't bother then, after listening to all these problems.

 

[scotth_uk]

Sp!ke, love those linux discs. NT security is a walk in the park if you can get physical access to a machine and reboot it. ;-)

 

[Sp!ke]

Sp!ke, love those linux discs. NT security is a walk in the park if you can get physical access to a machine and reboot it. ;-)

...or stick the path to the executable in boot.ini

 

[GrahamC230K]

In short, my problem was that

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI

was getting corrupted during my install.

Exporting and importing those keys post SP2 was the only was. No on SP2 and happy.