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3th - Retired  |
hey guys guys a quick FYI, service pack 2 is causing a lot of problems for a lot of people. so DO NOT install it until there's fixes for the nightmares that are going around. BSOD, 20 min reboots, norton conflicts, sound blaster conflicts, etc. thought this was important enough to post in here. hope everything is sunny with everyone  edit: just so you know i'm not making it up, "... the myriad compatibility problems that users have begun encountering when attempting to apply SP2. ...Microsoft last week posted a list of nearly 50 applications that "seem to stop working" once SP2 is applied, and another set of about 200 applications that "behave differently" upon application of the service pack." taken from this eweek article. i guess if you don't have any of the 250 apps they mention go for it, but i wouldn't risk it if i were you. _______________ this is the internet, be serious damn it! This post was edited by 3th on Aug 25 2004 07:43pm. |
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Odan-Wei Belouve - Student 
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Quote: My SP2 machines work just fine. ah ha !!! I knew you were one of Bill Gates' Henchmen !!! /me runs _______________ Padawan and brother to SmilyKrazy  - Adopted in the Belouve Family by Fizz and Bubu, BELOUVE ON! - Vladarion, you'll always be in my heart and memories - Spam-Padawan of Jacen Aratan  - [DJ is my beloved wife!  - JA Family: Brothers:
Virtue, Furi0us, Vladarion, Hardwired, Janus, Axion, D@RtHM@UL, Motrec, Mike , xAnAtOs , Luke Skywalker; Little bro to SilkMonkey ; Special kind of brother to Kenyon ; Sisters in-law: Rosered, Ain-Soph Aur] Photoshop works: click here |
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Orion - Retired 
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My SP2 machines work just fine. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Darkwood - Student 
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"We had to uninstall SP2 in safemode to kill it."* I've had nothing but trouble since I installed sp2 (it even makes jkja crash!), my advice is "wait". _______________ -Darkwood- |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
A friend of mine installed this thing... it froze his comp right after logging in. We had to uninstall SP2 in safemode to fix it. |
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Rosie - Student 
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oki doki, thanks for the tip |
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Menaxia - Student 
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I have to say - I downloaded it just to make the auto update thingumy go away. It screwed up my media player for a while, but that's the only problem I've had with it... _______________ This is not the place to look for me |
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Mookie - Ex-Student 
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My SP2 works fine as well. |
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Ataris - Milwaukees Finest 
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yeh, and Ekim isn't the only one My SP2 works just fine.. Can't see any difference with SP1 and this.. just that it supports more stuff and is 'networkly' thinking, more reliable.. no problems with uncompatiblity or weird boots.. _______________ [ Honorable mentions: aph3x | Milamber | Bail Hope Belouve | Jaiko D'Kana | Rosered | JediEthic | Mike/JJ/TheKing | Kensei | Dane | Gradius | Thomas Skywalker | Pink Floyd | Setementor | Steinin | Odan-Wei ] [ Owner of: MetaDust's 500th comment! | Eica's 700th comment! | Pink Floyd's 666th, 999th, 1200th and 1337th comment! | DarkRyu's 400th comment! | Redeye's 1st comment! | Cow's 1111st comment! | Rufusan's 75th comment! | Wicek's 3300th and 3400th comment! | Dash Starlight's 2000th comment! | Piccolo's 3400th comment! | Takaru's 300th comment! | Senor Hat's 900th comment! | Rytandus' 4160th comment! | The first ever awarded, the original, the one and only, Catphin Award!!1 ] "Music expresses that which can not be put in to words but can not remain silent." This comment was edited by Ataris on Oct 19 2004 12:56pm. |
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 Hmm. Thats odd how you guys are having these problems. SP2 works pretty well for me. I guess I'm the lucky one. _______________ 4/20/2005----Left the academy because I did'nt feel welcomed. |
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Odan-Wei Belouve - Student 
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Bad luck doesn't explain it came back to normal once I removed SP2 _______________ Padawan and brother to SmilyKrazy - Adopted in the Belouve Family by Fizz and Bubu, BELOUVE ON! - Vladarion, you'll always be in my heart and memories - Spam-Padawan of Jacen Aratan - [DJ is my beloved wife! - JA Family: Brothers:
Virtue, Furi0us, Vladarion, Hardwired, Janus, Axion, D@RtHM@UL, Motrec, Mike , xAnAtOs , Luke Skywalker; Little bro to SilkMonkey ; Special kind of brother to Kenyon ; Sisters in-law: Rosered, Ain-Soph Aur] Photoshop works: click here |
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I am using SP2 and I am having no problems like that. Although my stupid firewall by "Computer Associate" makes the game freeze on start up but I honestly doubt SP2 is the perp. _______________ 4/20/2005----Left the academy because I did'nt feel welcomed. This comment was edited by . on Oct 19 2004 12:21pm. |
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Odan-Wei Belouve - Student
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Squibit, I installed SP2 by accident about 3 weeks ago (curse automated Windows Update!!!) and it was ruining my internet connection in games: from a 6mbits DSL to the average rate of a 56k... So I'm not gonna try again to install it before I read A LOT of stuff saying it's now safe _______________ Padawan and brother to SmilyKrazy - Adopted in the Belouve Family by Fizz and Bubu, BELOUVE ON! - Vladarion, you'll always be in my heart and memories - Spam-Padawan of Jacen Aratan - [DJ is my beloved wife! - JA Family: Brothers:
Virtue, Furi0us, Vladarion, Hardwired, Janus, Axion, D@RtHM@UL, Motrec, Mike , xAnAtOs , Luke Skywalker; Little bro to SilkMonkey ; Special kind of brother to Kenyon ; Sisters in-law: Rosered, Ain-Soph Aur] Photoshop works: click here |
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Squibit - Student 
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Hey guys, sorry for the huge bump but i was wondering what the current update of this is ? Is it safe for me to install without a load of stuff going bust ? I have it downloaded and my windows installer thingy keeps flashing saying downloads ready to install, its SOOOOO annoying _______________ Quote: fiZZe: its SIR Fizzy Fluffy :p Quote: FiZZ[JAK]: that was what I call a counter Ah, things you only ever expect to hear once
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n00b - Student 
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3th, you are the shite man. SP2 came in my MSDN subscription this week, but now its going to stay there until MS fixes the problems. Our company is using several packages that are on the compatibility list, i.e. AutoCAD, Arcserve, ec... Thank you very much! _______________ Gone but hopefully not forgotten... |
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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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 Thanks for the notice! |
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Dan - Student |
Windows 98 foreva! *Hides* -Aiden- |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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SP2 doesn't show up on Windows Update for me...  although in retrospect that may not be a bad thing _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Hardwired - Retired 
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Quote: I still use Win2k on my gaming box. I don't need WindowsXP's thin candy shell. Me and Mr. Sith share the same view.. _______________ ::Nothing wrong with a little shooting.....as long as the right people get shot:: |
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Ris Win Juljul - Padawan 
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I have SP2 installed and ive had no problems with it, appart from my network it screwed up at the start but we found out that it was my dad's nortan firewall, it seem's to be ok now, so i have no faults with SP2. (YET!) Ris _______________ -Padawan of Virtue -Brother of Menaxia, *|irael, Krynn Adept, Majno, Mic Den Octela, DaMi3N, Beowulf, Dash Starlight, Carrock and Yuken Zalak -Proud owner to Mics 100th and 777th comment's, Lady C's 700th Comment and Emm's 100th Comment ^^ -A Proud Knight of Nippledom |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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WinXP doesn't play old games [correctly]. I'm still trying to play Dark Forces _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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I still use Win2k on my gaming box. I don't need WindowsXP's thin candy shell. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student
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Quote: Bah... Currently downloading Mandrake linux Windows can go and drown itself. /me claps!! _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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Steinin - Student 
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Bah... Currently downloading Mandrake linux Windows can go and drown itself. _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Yeah, I read about that in the Times some time last week, but forgot about it again. No idea if I have it installed, though. This comment was edited by Jacen Aratan on Aug 25 2004 07:53pm. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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BURN REDMOND! _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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