Anyone Try sp2 for XP yet...???

[bjc112]

It's still beta but worth a shot!

Half way down...\


Come on lab rats!

 

[DannyBoy]

I was looking at it the other day on MSDN section of MS's website.

Was strange though, none of my techy friends had heard of it.

None of them believed me about it.

Either way I dont think i want to be installing a Beta Service Pack.

After all, a service pack is there to fix problems, not create more.

Dan

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: MrFiTTy
I was looking at it the other day on MSDN section of MS's website.

Was strange though, none of my techy friends had heard of it.

None of them believed me about it.

Either way I dont think i want to be installing a Beta Service Pack.

After all, a service pack is there to fix problems, not create more.

Dan

True, but there is a few guienna pigs out there...

Im suprised there wasnt any threads concerning this...

 

[skyking]

SP1 nuked my AIW radeon, so I'm not rushing out to try SP2.........

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: skyking
SP1 nuked my AIW radeon, so I'm not rushing out to try SP2.........

How so? That doesn't seem very likely.

 

[Doh!]

Originally posted by: MrFiTTy
I was looking at it the other day on MSDN section of MS's website.

Was strange though, none of my techy friends had heard of it.

None of them believed me about it.

Either way I dont think i want to be installing a Beta Service Pack.

After all, a service pack is there to fix problems, not create more.

Dan

I guess none of your friends are techy enough On a serious note, this is not even beta software. It's alpha & has trashed numerous systems (there are successful cases, however). Make sure you fully back up everything before trying this.

 

[skyking]

Strangest thing. I have tried all sorts of driver cleaners, different drivers, pulled hardware, you name it. Unfortunately, I had installed some critical software which I cannot afford to lose, or I would uninstall sp1.
The card works fine in 2d. Whenever i try to game with it, instant lockups. I have done the latest directx, you name it. OS games fine with my gf2 gts, and a fresh install with the same hardware works just fine too. It had been a long time since I had tried to game, so I really could not roll back to see.
When I installed sp1, it updated my driver, and it has been NFG since then.

 

[spyordie007]

I joined in when they were beta testing SP2 for 2K and installed it on one of my boxes and it hosed my windows install. It errored out during the install and when Windows came back up half the services wouldnt start and *nothing* worked correctly. I think I tried an uninstall however the only thing that really fixed it was a reinstall of Windows. Oh well, I guess that's what I have crashboxes with ghost images for after all

Maybe if I get some free time in the next day or so I'll try installing SP2 on my XP crashbox.

-Spy

 

[spyordie007]

I guess not, I just went there to try and DL it and:

CURRENTLY DOWN DUE TO HIGH TRAFFIC, PLEASE COME BACK LATER!

And you have to be a member...

I guess I'll just have to wait until MS makes one of the later betas and/or RCs available.

-Spy

 

[spyordie007]

oh and BTW, it's also posted as an "alpha" not a "beta"

-Spy

 

[Confused]

MrFiTTy mentioned this to me a couple weeks back, and i said that it's probably fake, or very early alpha, and i wouldn't touch it with a very large barge pole.

I also said that i've not heard of it, as it hadn't been posted here anywhere!

 

[ProviaFan]

No way I'm going to possibly allow my system to be screwed up by an alpha service pack.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: jliechty
No way I'm going to possibly allow my system to be screwed up by an alpha service pack.

What happend to your sense of adventure jliechty?

-Spy

 

[Bluefront]

What's the big deal here? You image your install, try the new service pack.....if it screws up, go back to your previous image. I do that all the time with all sorts of software. Drive Image.......works perfect.

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: Bluefront
What's the big deal here? You image your install, try the new service pack.....if it screws up, go back to your previous image. I do that all the time with all sorts of software. Drive Image.......works perfect.

Word.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: RalfHutter

Originally posted by: Bluefront
What's the big deal here? You image your install, try the new service pack.....if it screws up, go back to your previous image. I do that all the time with all sorts of software. Drive Image.......works perfect.

Word.

Exactly, drive image is a life saver...

Although i am not on my XP box, i am however planning to try this one out...

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Originally posted by: RalfHutter

Originally posted by: Bluefront
What's the big deal here? You image your install, try the new service pack.....if it screws up, go back to your previous image. I do that all the time with all sorts of software. Drive Image.......works perfect.

Word.

Amen.