Shalbatana

July 10, 2008 at 6:26am

It would seem that a fresh install is the way to go. I slipstreamed SP3 into a fresh install (thanks Murph) and y computer is running very happy and healthy. In fact, It gave me USB 2 support (prior to this I didn't have SP2 and my old via chipset needed it for 2.0 for some reason), and more importantly, it solved all the issues I was having with my HD2600XT AGP card.

 I know this is the result of a clean install, and not directly SP3, but it's still a great feeling, and SP3 gave me all the security updates to boot. It's still early, but no issues so far.

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pcfxer

July 09, 2008 at 2:29pm

I have had to reinstall Windows on two machines thus far. Both machines used wireless (a laptop and my media center), however, I think that is irrelevant. I do know that both systems were fresh installs updated from SP1 up to SP2, then to SP3.

 Issue: Computer was unable to login to Windows in safe mode and in regular modes. The errors exclaimed that Windows was unable to allocate sufficient resources to create the user profile (and some other vaguity). 

 
The apparent solution (I haven't upgraded these machines to SP3, laptop is running Windows Server/PC-BSD) is to ensure having Windows Installer 3.1 or above prior to updating SP3. One must chose custom, obviously and select Installer, deselecting SP3 of course. If Installer 3.1 is not visible to Update, then one must search Microsoft's Download site for the executable. I haven't tested this, but others whom I have e-mailed report the same exact problem and the above appeared to solve their issues.

Good luck!

Naw-yi

July 09, 2008 at 1:23pm

all games would freeze, cod all, hellgate, farcry, bf1 and 2, online games americas army operations, combat arms it didnt matter.

Naw-yi

July 09, 2008 at 1:20pm

had a problem running all games with sp3 installed 3 times, everytime i updated all drivers and still no good, got xphome sp2 running w/no problems.  good enough for me.

shellpc

July 09, 2008 at 1:18pm

Same here. I've been running it in Windows XP Professional 32-bit for a month now and no issues.

hermsherm

July 09, 2008 at 1:05pm

I installed SP3 once it was available as a stand-alone download, and had zero issues.