Author Topic: XP SP3 (Read 2421 times)

ocala · « **on:** May 08, 2008, 03:53:11 PM »

Has anyone DL this and has it affected your PC in any way?

katlon · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2008, 04:25:11 PM »

I read on another forum that it had messed up some settings in GRLevelX. I am going to wait until they get the bugs out before I download. I have never know Microsoft to get it right the first time.

Lonnie

Harryca · « **Reply #2 on:** May 09, 2008, 12:03:06 AM »

According to this article, MS is delaying distribution of XP SP3 and stopped the automatic distribution of Vista SP1 due to compatibility issues.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145384-c,windowsbugs/article.html

I just installed Vista SP1 on one of my machines a few weeks ago and have not encountered any problems so far.

racenet · « **Reply #3 on:** May 09, 2008, 07:38:31 AM »

I have installed SP3 on one of my machines and so far, it is working fine.

Bob

Anole · « **Reply #4 on:** May 09, 2008, 07:30:50 PM »

Quote from: Harryca on May 09, 2008, 12:03:06 AM

According to this article, MS is delaying distribution of XP SP3 and stopped the automatic distribution of Vista SP1 due to compatibility issues.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145384-c,windowsbugs/article.html

I just installed Vista SP1 on one of my machines a few weeks ago and have not encountered any problems so far.

Not quite accurate. The SP3 issue discussed is specific to Microsoft Dynamics, which has a pretty small user base. The SP3 rollout was delayed while measures were put in place to prevent it from being rolled out to machines running Dynamics. I believe that it is already available again to those who aren't through windows update as of 5/6/2008.

Pretty funny that the delay was caused by problems with one of it's own products.

TNETWeather · « **Reply #5 on:** May 10, 2008, 01:34:26 AM »

A number of people are having issues with WinXP SP3 with AMD processors.

I most likely will take a gander at it this weekend on a lesser used box first. Don't plan on doing it to my Weather workstation though as I don't see the need.

I only have one workstation with AMD on it and nobody is using now, so I might see if I can blow it up.

NeverWinter · « **Reply #6 on:** May 13, 2008, 02:39:16 AM »

haven't tried it already.. Maybe i'll stick on XP or Vista....

Garth Bock · « **Reply #7 on:** May 19, 2008, 02:33:58 PM »

I just got a Dell GX-620 desktop (3ghz - 2gb ram) that will be the main weather computer. I wiped and reloaded and XP SP3 came down with the auto updates. So far Virtual VP is running fine along with Weatherview32, WeatherLink, WeatherDisplay, and VWS connected to it.

Mark / Ohio · « **Reply #8 on:** May 20, 2008, 12:25:19 AM »

SP3 seems to be running OK on my 9 year old desktop..... now.

Long story short I put it on there and found it took more of the hard drive than I expected. So I uninstalled it and something went horribly wrong. I lost operation of my disk defrag utility for a start. Then on reboot it kept checking the disk and finding errors. Somehow I ended up with WeatherLink database corruption and lost the profiles for Firefox which of course took all my bookmarks with it.

So I reinstalled SP3 a second time and the defrag started working again. I copied the WeatherLink station files from my laptop and the Firefox profile from my laptop back to the desktop and got all of that back up to where I started again. Bad part is I'm down to 500-600Mb free on the 6gig hard drive. So after 3 days of aggravation it is running stable now for the last day and a half anyway. Still need to get some more space opened back up on the drive somehow. Part of the fun also was I moved VWS, ImageSalsa and WeatherLink to a secondary drive to make some more room on the main. Took me about a day before I caught all the file paths that had to be changed mainly in VWS to get my website and weather banners working.

Been a good year or more since the old girl gave me a run for my money like that last time.

ocala · « **Reply #9 on:** May 20, 2008, 01:14:06 PM »

6 gigs eh? I thought things were tight with my old pc when I had 20. Now with 320 I'm very happy.

WeatherBeacon · « **Reply #10 on:** August 21, 2008, 05:41:16 PM »

Anyone else care to please share their experience with SP3?

My computers keep annoying me with pop-up reminders to download SP3, but I'd like to hear more feedback before I take the plunge. My weather PC, which is 5 years old now, is already slow and is pretty low on disk space as it is. My laptop has been running well, and I don't want to risk bugging it up without more info about SP3.

Thanks!

Kevin...

Curly · « **Reply #11 on:** August 21, 2008, 06:32:57 PM »

No problems running the weather stuff 24/7 with SP3. It's a six year old Dell desktop with Intel.
My work laptop also has an Intel and haven't seen any problems with SP3 there either.

FWIW, my other desktop has Vista with SP1 and haven't seen any real issues on that one. I don't know if it's a Vista or Windows thing, but Windows only recognizes 3 gigs of memory. The bios shows 4 gigs.

GregJ · « **Reply #12 on:** August 21, 2008, 06:40:48 PM »

I updated both my desktop and laptop and haven't had a problem. My desktop runs 24/7 and my laptop sees about 8 hours use a day. Both computers are Dell with Intel processors.

Greg

anchorageweather · « **Reply #13 on:** August 21, 2008, 07:15:14 PM »

Auto downloaded - no problems. PC is 5-6 years old.

tinplate · « **Reply #14 on:** August 21, 2008, 09:01:11 PM »

If you are low on disk space, you may want to skip the update. It eats up a fair chunk of disk space because in addition to what is new, it saves everything needed to roll back the update in case you want to uninstall it.

Steve
SoftWx

ALITTLEweird1 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 24, 2008, 08:58:20 PM »

I DL SP3 lastweek and it crashed my PC after the re-boot. Had to reformat. So im sticking with SP2.

WeatherBeacon · « **Reply #16 on:** August 24, 2008, 10:05:10 PM »

Quote from: ALITTLEweird1 on August 24, 2008, 08:58:20 PM

I DL SP3 lastweek and it crashed my PC after the re-boot. Had to reformat. So im sticking with SP2.

OUCH!

After reading the replies (before ALITTLE's), I installed it on my laptop. Aftr doing so the laptop seemed slower than usual, but I can't say I've noticed it since. I think I'll forego installing it on my older and already slower desktop. I may have to look into adding memory and getting a larger HD.

Regards,

Kevin...

W Thomas · « **Reply #17 on:** August 24, 2008, 10:40:54 PM »

After reading some problems encountered here as well as those I have heard about from other places I am a little skeptical at best about installing SP3.

Basically from my understanding it's mainly a security patch to begin with . With that being the case as well as I try to keep things locked down here and perform regular PM's
I think I am safe without it :

On my weather server I am running no automatic updates..in fact no updates period! I will push them across the network if I really have a need for them. It seems like a lot of the M$ products want to phone home way too often and
provide Redmond or somewhere with a lot of info they don't necessarily need access to. I don't have anything to hide but it's just the principles I guess.

It does make for a bit of a problem especially when the one member had to reformat and re install the OS! Hopefully none of the rest of us will have to endure that...from an update anyway LOL!

Wayne

www.smythweather.net

CW8217

Mark / Ohio · « **Reply #18 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:46:51 AM »

Just an update to my original post...

The old desktop is still running fine. After some more work I got the hard drive cleaned up some more and about 1gig open again on it. The laptop has been Ok with it all along. Not sure though knowing what I know now I would go through it again on the old desktop. That was more trouble to go through then warranted for the life it has left I think.

At the very least make sure you have your software and data backed up somewhere off the computer when you do it. Having most of the files mirrored on my laptop saved me another ton of work when the desktop decided to regurgitate the update as I also had corruption of files on the USB hard drive connected to the desktop.

mlail · « **Reply #19 on:** September 07, 2008, 12:18:11 PM »

Call it a coincidence but when I applied SP3 and rebooted once completed, the OS would no longer boot up. Even after using the repair attempt from the XP CD it would not start up. It would very briefly look like it was, then it would crash and reboot. Now to be fair a SATA disk usually lasts me just over a year running 24x7 and this disk was at that age. So it could be that the disk drive just failed at the same time I installed the SP3. You decide!

ALITTLEweird1 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 07, 2008, 02:31:01 PM »

Like i said in my previous post..After i installed SP3 and rebooted, my system crashed. Had to reformat.

NGRRFan · « **Reply #21 on:** September 07, 2008, 02:46:16 PM »

I have had zero problems with SP3, so maybe it is a conflict between hardware and software.

Bob from Kansas · « **Reply #22 on:** September 07, 2008, 04:18:55 PM »

So far I've deployed SP3 on 4 home units, and 24 office units with nary a burp.

Bob

racenet · « **Reply #23 on:** September 07, 2008, 05:21:52 PM »

No problems here with SP3. Have it installed on 5 of 6 machines. The 6th one will have it soon.

Bob

Anole · « **Reply #24 on:** September 07, 2008, 05:56:45 PM »

I have it installed on 7 out of 8 machines in the office with the one holdout the weather station machine. No problems with any of them and they are a mix of Intel and AMD machines.

I've installed it on probably 50 customer machines and I have had one of them that had issues. Specifically, an Intel based laptop with Intel WiFi. After the SP3 install, the system would not auto connect to the preferred network(s) any more. You could connect manually and the connection would stay up, but you _had_ to connect manually. Backed out SP3 and everything was fine.

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Author Topic: XP SP3 (Read 2421 times)