Windows XP service pack 3

[Dave N.]

Hey fellas,

I wanted to see if any one of you have tried Windows XP service pack 3?

If you have downloaded it what did it do to improve your XP OS?

Any negative effects?

Thanks

Dave

[Steve Conner]

As soon as I accepted the EULA, Bill Gates mooned me and my motherboard caught fire. Apart from that, I'd recommend it.

[Rob Mercure]

How could you tell he was mooning you?

[Don Moose]

It _is_ hard to tell it wasn't his face.

/ yes, cheap shot.

[Dave N.]

LOL....

I guess ol Bill can laugh all the way to the bank though.....

Bank teller sees him coming and says (Oh, here comes butthead). LOL....

On a side note, I found using an ASUS P5N-E mobo sucks on a new build.
The damn thing was fast at some tasks but would really hesitate using a flash drive or recognizing the different optical drives. I had one sata DVD burner and an IDE DVD burner and the mobo seem to just not to want to see which was in use even after setting the bios settings it would see the drives but when using them I would always have to type in the run command the drive letter before these drives would respond. I just switched to a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L mobo and it works fine. Go figure....

I like ASUS but some of thier boards are not to easy to deal with. I think I prefer the
P35 intel chipsets over the 650i SLI Nvidia crap. The Nvidia drivers would conflict with some programs too.

Building PC's is fun but sometimes a real pain

[kg]

it is difficult to go wrong with an intel chipset.

i haven't installed sp3 yet but i have heard of no compelling reasons not to.

[Dave N.]

Well not to sound stupid but I looked over at the Microsoft site and could not find where to load the SP3.

I have always found downloads I need on the web but do not see this download at the Microsft site, just a pdf telling about it. Did they remove it for some odd reason?

Dave

[Mark Hammer]

I wasted a big chunk of my monthly bandwidth allotment on it, and found out that a number of applications I depended on stopped working. So, I removed it and everything worked fine again.

[mikescott]

I'm new here, trying to get some help with a B12xt but, saw this thread. I definately would wait a few more months for all the manufacturers to get their drivers in line with SP3. It has been known to break apps and cause some issues with various video drivers.

[samsung79]

Ok, I had windows service pack 2 over 2 years, last time I reinstalled windows, and installed with service pack3, really nothing changed.

Perhaps something behind the screne...

[olemuso]

I have SP3 on two machines... ( one XP Home, one XP Pro ). I made full system backups of both before installing the Service Pack but luckily didn`t need them.
No problems at all with SP3 for me.

[andrej]

no probs here, too, although my bass player's dad seems to have some problems.

[Steve Conner]

Since MS distributed it on automatic updates, I ended up putting it on both my machines, and I had no trouble, except for certain issues with Windows product activation which I can't discuss here

[hari poter]

SP3 is more hungru for memory. Luckily, memory is cheap.
Altough, working better. Stability is ok. Drivers is as-is. Java (sun microsystems) is added by default, and internet explorer 7. ie7 is good, almost like mozilla.
Not need automatic updates. I prefer to switch automatic off.
Next step is vista, but is it step forward or step back?

[CarlZ]

hmm lets see......do i upgrad to sp3 or not? what do i get out of the deal

mostly eye candy
java which i already have
system remains 32 bit
a higher tax on my cpu
a higher tax on my memory
potential driver problems for my hardware

OH BABY....sign me up now!!!!
It's the old rule....if it's not broke don't fix it.

Since MS distributed it on automatic updates, I ended up putting it on both my machines, and I had no trouble, except for certain issues with Windows product activation which I can't discuss here

LOL sounds like you and I have similar problems Steve.

[Webby]

My thoughts as well, SP2 works solid for me. Like you said if it aint broke...

hmm lets see......do i upgrad to sp3 or not? what do i get out of the deal

mostly eye candy
java which i already have
system remains 32 bit
a higher tax on my cpu
a higher tax on my memory
potential driver problems for my hardware

OH BABY....sign me up now!!!!
It's the old rule....if it's not broke don't fix it.



LOL sounds like you and I have similar problems Steve.

[TD_Madden]

I downloaded the SP3 executable and installed it with no problem at all....and no increased CPU or memeory requirements that i can see.

I also slipstreamed it into an XP installation disk and rebuilt a couple systems with it with no problems.

Seems like most of those having problems did the automatic download thing....