Re: To Upgrade Or Not ?
From: Juergen Heinzl (sigsegv_at_web.de)
Date: 09/08/04
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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:02:28 +0200
"Dave J" <fj@asg.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ONxu94KlEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Last year we replaced about 30 of our PCs . All have the identical
> motherboard running XP Pro SP1 and we are now _considering_ going to SP2.
> I visited the manufacturer's web site to see if there were any required
> updates [BIOS, drivers etc.] but found nothing. To be certain I sent them an
> e-mail asking if there were any known problems [e.g. compatability] with
> this board and SP2.
>
> Here's their reply (verbatim) :-
>
> *Please do not use SP2 at this moment. The major issue might be the firewall
> established in Windows XP SP2 which provides better security, but just
> creates more incompatability against drivers, games, as well as other
> software. No matter which motherboard you are using, there will be the
> similar issue. Supposed this is a well known issue on earth. Please switch
> back to SP1. You might have to format the hard disk and re-install the
> Windows XP SP1 from the very beginning since Windows OS does not accept
> backward overwriting*
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You'll either have to install SP2 sooner or latter of find yourself being unable
to install *any* further XP updates probably sooner than latter.
I'm not having any problems here, though certainly you'd make sure all your
drivers are up to date and look for any applications related updates, too.
In addition if your machines CPUs are AMD and not Intel you may do a bit
of reading about PAW and NX and how to disable those features.
Personally I think it's better to do things earlier than latter as should there
be any problems they aren't going to go away by waiting.
Of course you needn't update all 30 machines and perhaps you can configure
one of it such all required applications and stuff are running to test it against
SP2 for a week or too.
Of course though and at worst their answer, which really isn't one given your
question to them, may mean that "Yes, there're problems but since we can't
provide you with a BIOS upgrade for the time being we just aren't telling you
that".
Cheers,
Juergen
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