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| Thread ID: 48849 | 2004-09-02 23:10:00 | XP SP2 - experiences thread | Biggles (121) | Press F1 |
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| 268573 | 2004-09-05 05:01:00 | I have two PCs both running Gigabyte Mother boards type GA 7VA with 2 gig AMD Athlon processors and Gigabyte 52 speed CD reader writers . Having seen a problem with SP2 surface in a local computer shop where after the installation of SP2, the CD drives will no longer autostart CDs that are supposed to, ie PC world CD, MS Office CD etc, I checked both of my machines before I installed SP2 to ensure that autostarting worked ok in each case and they did . Once SP2 was installed, The CD drives on both machines would not autostart and still don't after SP2 installation . While each machine came with OEM windows XP I have plug in drive bays fitted so I can change to a drive with Linux and or Win XP professional retail version . On all Win XP drives regardless of version, the CD drives will not autostart . Now on one of the two machines, I have a DVD player which is not the boot drive but that DVD player which also plays CDs, DOES auto start . The CD drives on both machines autostart correctly when running drives with either Xandros Linux Windows 98 . The CD can be read from and written to ok . Now on the WinXP Professional HDD, I found SP2 had stopped some of the appelettes in Control panel from working . I was unable to go into Printers and faxes for instance, double clicking on that Icon producing an error message which the computer wanted to report to Microsoft . I did that but it wouldn't open . I could open printer however from the star menu entry . I got P***ed off with it and reformatted the drive, reinstalled Window XP pro from scratch then installed SP2 and finally re-registered it on line . But no CD autorun . Any help to get CD operation back to normal would be appreciated . Oh one more thing, someone suggested that Nero Burning Rom causes this problem and while I use it on one drive, I have not installed it on the reinstalled WinXP Pro one to that puts the Kybosh on that theory . Cheers JWD |
riscpc (5756) | ||
| 268574 | 2004-09-05 06:19:00 | Thanks for disk. SP2 installed on P4 with no problem. Worst part was getting the disk out of its sleeve! Norton A/V and ZA working perfectly. David |
Amber (6106) | ||
| 268575 | 2004-09-05 09:17:00 | Further to my post of last night... I have now installed SP2 on the desktop (2.4GHz HP Pavilion) - no problems, and I am now certain that SP2 has speeded everything up. |
rodb (1561) | ||
| 268576 | 2004-09-05 10:21:00 | Installed it first thing after XP Pro on my new PIII 733Mhz, 256MB RAM (only had 128 when I installed SP2) and 10GB hard drive. Went smooth as. PC goes faster now too :). But security centre doesn't seem to count NAV 2001 as an antivirus. Oh well no biggy. And also it used about 400mb when I only have 2.5GB free. LOL, I'm using 2GB more than the HDD size of my old computer. I also installed WMP 10 about 10 mins ago, not bad but the new look will take getting used to. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 268577 | 2004-09-05 12:27:00 | Asus A2500H Notebook Win XP Pro. Did mine a couple of weeks ago. Only thing that has changed is Zone Alarm is getting in the way of intenet connections a bit more often. Altogether seamless. Thanks, PC World, for the disk. |
theother1 (3573) | ||
| 268578 | 2004-09-05 13:49:00 | Completed a slipstream install and disabled the no-execute feature in the boot.ini. Overall much faster than SP1. | Nyet (437) | ||
| 268579 | 2004-09-06 01:58:00 | (A shocker!! Running XP Pro on Barton 2500+ and 512 Ram on Gigabyte M'board) This is exactly my system . . . I too had problems until . . . 1 . Removed Norton Antivirus (now running Trend Micro within my V-Com System Utility Suite) 2 . Disengaged my current firewall (included in above mentioned Suite) Now seems to run much, much smoother . My brother in IT suspects that SP2 now requires a lot more system resources than the previous 256 meg ram min . Min would now appear to be 512 . . . |
KevCole (774) | ||
| 268580 | 2004-09-06 02:55:00 | hmmm......I have installed it on a number of machines running 256mb and they hummed along,The one i built on Friday used amd 2500+ and it it flew. I would imagine that the problems(well some of them) are caused by the condition of the os before install,Its not a bad idea to do a complete format and install. If you enjoy that sort of thing that is. |
metla (154) | ||
| 268581 | 2004-09-06 03:32:00 | I have been able to load on SP2 without any problems onto my 2.7Ghz P4 machine with ZA Pro and NAV 2004. Noticed that the Windows Security Centre did not spot that NAV is upto date and is not monitoring that it is up to date. But Symentec is one of the affiliated supplier so go figure! Article below refers to some problems on installing SP2, if you have spyware on your PC afr.com Cheers |
aronking (2294) | ||
| 268582 | 2004-09-06 04:42:00 | Updated three machines this week. P3 1Ghz, P4 2Ghz, and a P4 3.2 Ghz. No problems at all. One boot up Nortons IS detected the windows Firewall and basically turned it off after asking if it could share the info and status. Do find that the boot up time is slightly longer but only by a matter of seconds. |
Big John (551) | ||
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