Re: Q811493 et al - borks my BIOS??

From: phoenix (phoenix@fakeaddress.net)
Date: 04/21/03 

From: phoenix <phoenix@fakeaddress.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:37:05 GMT

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:10:27 -0400, nooneyouknow wrote:

> Did the update, and discovered that upon booting the PC, immediately things
> come to a near-halt in slowness. We can barely enter BIOS setup, and when we
> can, pressing a key we end up waiting on screen redraw before the keystroke
> is recognized. Talk about SLOW. Something is clearly borked here, because
> all this starts immediate upon boot up and long before XP even begins to
> load.
> Using a Gateway GP7-800 (P3/800), IDE drives, XP Pro - all patched up.
>
> Things we have done:
> Removed all 3 of those patches - no change
> Defragmented the HD, no change
> Turned off Norton AV Pro, reinstalled - no change
> Uninstalled - no change
> Defragmented again - still no change.
> Next step? Reformat HD and reinstall XP Pro...
>
> Would sure like to avoide reformating/installing XP and the various Apps.
>
> Seems this latest patch installs more than just the 3 patches - I am curious
> what changes or files got installed that would affect the initial boot up
> and bork the BIOS???
>
> Hopefully M/Soft will have a fix ASAP -
>
> Any suggestions, appreciated.

Hi

You need to uninstall the patch, have a look at the details here
http://tinyurl.com/9z5c

HTH

Regards

Bill

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