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18th Jun 2005, 11:38 PM
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Reputation: 3845   Rep Power: 71 |  Anyone still running WXP SP1? Ever since I started installing SP2 back when I was testing the P4 775 processors, with so quite a number of problems due to tighter 'securities' in IE, I have to install back SP1 in order to be able to test properly. Till now, I have not installed SP2 on any systems I've installed. I'm still wondering whether I should be upgrading for all the security patches, and with a lot of features that I won't even bother using... |
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19th Jun 2005, 12:16 AM
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Reputation: 2818 Rep Power: 42 | what kinda incompatibility?? I used to had them. but majority of the benchmark developers have already released patches to fix it..
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19th Jun 2005, 12:26 AM
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Reputation: 715 Rep Power: 13 | Hmm... what kind of problem did you encounter? If you are going to test the hardware I think you should test it on SP2. Most people are using SP2 so I guess it's better to test with what most people is using. 
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19th Jun 2005, 12:27 AM
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Reputation: 2428 Rep Power: 33 | I'm still running SP1 
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19th Jun 2005, 12:28 AM
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Reputation: 3845 Rep Power: 71 | Yeah, I know they have been fixed, I'm not really benchmarking my system, so I'm not bothered about those things. I'm just worried that some things don't work after I patch it. It's very very difficult for me to revert back to SP1, so I really want to make sure everything works fine... This is probably the only SP that I've been so paranoid about. I upgraded most SPs in the past without worrying. Maybe I should test it on the test system, see whether I like it or not. |
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19th Jun 2005, 12:51 AM
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Reputation: 2818 Rep Power: 42 | Quote:
these patches work fine. but must warn u that the winstone's instruction isn't that clear (not sure they have re-written it or not) as for the rest, as long as it doesn't involve IE (like gaming), then it should work just fine. I've been benchmarking using XPSP2 for 7 months. no problems provided u apply the patches.
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